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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique

In research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique stands highest in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#788 of 3,409 worldwide), Life Sciences (#4,722 of 7,800 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#11,645 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Forestry, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Agricultural and Biological Sciences — Forestry is 67.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#11,085
of 28,054 · #14,183 all time
Rank in Burkina Faso
#4
of 12
Research works
718
▲ 129% vs 2013–17
Citations
5.7k
8.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
79%
world 28%

What is Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #788 of 3,409 10.9%118 #825
Life SciencesDomain #4,722 of 7,800 10.2%140 #5782
Health SciencesDomain #11,645 of 11,982 6.8%74 #19818

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#825 #788
  2. Life Sciences#5,782 #4,722
  3. Health Sciences#19,818 #11,645
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Forestry takes 67.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. ForestrySubfield · 21.6 works67×
  2. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 33.7 works23×
  3. Agricultural and Biological SciencesField · 117.8 works8.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 8.05× its world share, 118 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.93× its world share, 15 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.25× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.79× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.35× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.12× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.63× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.16× its world share, 3 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.34× its world share, 16 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.17× its world share, 18 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.32× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.41× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.19× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.88× its world share, 52 worksMedicineNursing: 6.11× its world share, 9 worksNursingVeterinary: 6.86× its world share, 3 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.36× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.57× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.77× its world share, 30 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 8.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique?

Ranked on the composite score, Patrice Savadogo and Alain Joseph Sissao lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique.

  1. 1 Patrice Savadogo Burkina Faso · #565,882 worldwide 75 citations · 21 works
  2. 2 Alain Joseph Sissao Burkina Faso · #895,708 worldwide 1 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique

Which keywords describe research at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Smallholder Farmers, Climate Change, Sustainability, Adaptation, Agroecology, Diversity, Livestock Farming and Agricultural Development.

▲ 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 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Smallholder Farmers54▲ 78×5 topics
  2. Climate Change42▲ 5.1×40 topics
  3. Sustainability39▲ 5.2×21 topics
  4. Adaptation32▲ 37×5 topics
  5. Agroecology32▲ 71×3 topics
  6. Diversity31▲ 58×4 topics
  7. Livestock Farming31▲ 163×2 topics
  8. Agricultural Development31▲ 61×1 topic
  9. Work Organization31▲ 236×1 topic
  10. Biodiversity Conservation25▲ 22×7 topics
  11. Sustainable Agriculture25▲ 25×8 topics
  12. Nutritional Value24▲ 71×3 topics
  13. Climate Resilience24▲ 127×2 topics
  14. Agroforestry23▲ 114×3 topics
  15. Indigenous Fruits21▲ 287×1 topic
  16. Tree Domestication21▲ 287×1 topic
  17. Epidemiology19▲ 1.53×53 topics
  18. Public Health12▲ 2.8×27 topics
  19. Antioxidant11▲ 5.3×27 topics
  20. Medicinal Plants10▲ 8.5×10 topics
  21. Genetic Diversity10▲ 7.3×15 topics
  22. Antioxidant Activity10▲ 4.9×18 topics
  23. Healthcare9▲ 2.7×8 topics
  24. Ethnicity9▲ 7.5×4 topics
  25. Social Movements8▲ 8.6×4 topics
  26. Governance8▲ 7.6×3 topics
  27. Decentralization8▲ 12×2 topics
  28. Africa7▲ 58×2 topics
  29. Political Transition7▲ 46×2 topics
  30. media pluralism7▲ 300×1 topic
  31. urban protest7▲ 300×1 topic
  32. Flavonoids7▲ 9.1×6 topics
  33. Phytochemicals7▲ 21×6 topics
  34. Nutritional Quality7▲ 29×4 topics
  35. Community Engagement7▲ 6.5×4 topics
  36. Local Development6▲ 18×2 topics
  37. Territorial Governance6▲ 17×2 topics
  38. Drought Tolerance6▲ 14×5 topics
  39. Breeding6▲ 24×5 topics
  40. Citizen Participation6▲ 15×1 topic

Which research topics does Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Agriculture and Rural Development Research, African Botany and Ecology Studies, African Studies and Ethnography and French Urban and Social Studies.

Agriculture and Rural De…31Agriculture and Rural Development Research: 31 fractional worksAfrican Botany and Ecolo…21African Botany and Ecology Studies: 21 fractional worksAfrican Studies and Ethnography: 7 fractional worksFrench Urban and Social Studies: 6 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Water Access: 5 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 4 fractional worksHealthcare Systems and Practices: 4 fractional worksSeed and Plant Biochemistry: 3 fractional worksAgricultural pest management studies: 3 fractional worksEthnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies: 3 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsForestrySociology and Political ScienceNutrition and Dietetics4 others

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

  1. 1 Agriculture and Rural Development Research Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 31 works
  2. 2 African Botany and Ecology Studies Forestry 21 works
  3. 3 African Studies and Ethnography Sociology and Political Science 7 works
  4. 4 French Urban and Social Studies Sociology and Political Science 6 works
  5. 5 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 5 works
  6. 6 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 4 works
  7. 7 Healthcare Systems and Practices General Health Professions 4 works
  8. 8 Seed and Plant Biochemistry Food Science 3 works
  9. 9 Agricultural pest management studies Plant Science 3 works
  10. 10 Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies Plant Science 3 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 available79.2%not open20.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors49.9%domestic only50.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 129% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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