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Catholic University of West Africa

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Research works
72
▲ 153% vs 2013–17
Citations
105
1.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
65%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Catholic University of West Africa is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2.03× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.65× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 0.80× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.81× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.57× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 5.82× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.44× its world share, 2 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 2.04× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.97× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.38× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.96× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.06× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 5.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Catholic University of West Africa?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Healthcare, Aging, Caregiving, Elderly, Palliative Care, Healthcare Legislation, Patient Rights and Gender Inequality.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 19 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Healthcare3▲ 12×4 topics
  2. Aging2▲ 19×2 topics
  3. Caregiving2▲ 130×1 topic
  4. Elderly2▲ 39×1 topic
  5. Palliative Care1▲ 36×2 topics
  6. Gender Inequality1▲ 34×2 topics
  7. Healthcare Legislation1▲ 79×1 topic
  8. Livestock Farming1▲ 75×1 topic
  9. Multilingualism1▲ 28×2 topics
  10. Patient Rights1▲ 64×1 topic
  11. Social Capital1▲ 8.8×5 topics
  12. Sustainability1▲ 1.91×1 topic
  13. Poverty Reduction1▲ 33×2 topics
  14. Banking1▲ 92×1 topic
  15. Conditional Cash Transfers1▲ 109×1 topic
  16. Finance1▲ 21×1 topic
  17. Language Policy1▲ 29×1 topic
  18. School Subsidies1▲ 109×1 topic
  19. Translanguaging1▲ 94×1 topic

Which research topics does Catholic University of West Africa publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues, Agriculture and Rural Development Research, Health, Medicine and Society and Banking stability, regulation, efficiency.

Aging, Elder Care, and S…2Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues: 2 fractional worksAgriculture and Rural Development Research: 1 fractional worksHealth, Medicine and Soc…1Health, Medicine and Society: 1 fractional worksBanking stability, regul…1Banking stability, regulation, efficiency: 1 fractional worksMultilingual Education and Policy: 1 fractional worksPoverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 1 fractional worksSocial Policies and Family1Social Policies and Family: 1 fractional worksUrinary Tract Infections Management: 1 fractional worksReproductive tract infections research: 1 fractional worksPreterm Birth and Chorioamnionitis: 1 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsFinanceLinguistics and Language4 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues General Health Professions 2 works
  2. 2 Agriculture and Rural Development Research Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  3. 3 Health, Medicine and Society General Health Professions 1 works
  4. 4 Banking stability, regulation, efficiency Finance 1 works
  5. 5 Multilingual Education and Policy Linguistics and Language 1 works
  6. 6 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 1 works
  7. 7 Social Policies and Family Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  8. 8 Urinary Tract Infections Management Epidemiology 1 works
  9. 9 Reproductive tract infections research Microbiology 1 works
  10. 10 Preterm Birth and Chorioamnionitis Epidemiology 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available65.2%not open34.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors38.1%domestic only61.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Catholic University of West Africa's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 153% higher than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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