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Dagon University

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Research works
115
▼ 39% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.3k
11.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
39%
world 40%
International
45%
world 18%
Dagon University

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

Which fields of science does Dagon University work in?

In 2022-now, 36% of research at Dagon University is in Physical Sciences, 28% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (19%), Social Sciences (19%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (14%).

Physical Sciences: 8 fractional works · 36.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 13.7% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 4.9% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 9.6% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 28.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 18.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 9.5% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workReligious studies: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 5 fractional works · 24.7% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 19.3% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 11.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 5.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKDagon University21fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences36%Health Sciences25%Social Sciences28%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences313.7%
    2. Environmental Science29.6%
    3. Computer Science14.1%
    4. Engineering13.8%
    5. Mathematics01.6%
    6. Physics and Astronomy01.6%
    7. Materials Science01.0%
    8. Chemistry00.8%
    1. Social Sciences418.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities14.8%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting02.4%
    4. Psychology01.5%
    5. Decision Sciences00.4%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.3%
    1. Medicine419.3%
    2. Health Professions14.8%
    3. Nursing00.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology15.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences13.5%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology01.4%
    4. Neuroscience00.5%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.73× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.09× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.39× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.53× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8.73× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.94× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.35× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.71× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.83× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.00× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 1.08× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.65× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.74× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.47× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 8.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences8.73×3 works
  2. Environmental Science1.94×2 works
  3. Health Professions1.83×1 works
  4. Arts and Humanities1.65×1 works
  5. Social Sciences1.47×4 works
  6. Immunology and Microbiology1.39×0 works
  7. Mathematics1.35×0 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.09×1 works
  9. Nursing1.08×0 works
  10. Medicine1.00×4 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.74×0 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.73×1 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.71×0 works
  14. Computer Science0.53×1 works
  15. Chemistry0.51×0 works
  16. Psychology0.48×0 works
  17. Decision Sciences0.41×0 works
  18. Neuroscience0.33×0 works
  19. Materials Science0.30×0 works
  20. Engineering0.25×1 works
  21. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.15×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Dagon University?

Ranked on the quality score, Aye K. Kyaw, Aung May Than and Aye Ko Aung lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Dagon University.

  1. 1 Aye K. Kyaw Myanmar · #1,597,575 worldwide 474 citations · 24 works
  2. 2 Aung May Than Myanmar · #4,684,452 worldwide 55 citations · 21 works
  3. 3 Aye Ko Aung Myanmar · #5,167,085 worldwide 542 citations · 32 works
All ranked researchers at Dagon University

What are the most cited papers from Dagon University?

The most cited paper from Dagon University is "Highly evolvable malaria vectors: The genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquitoes" (Daniel E. Neafsey et al., 2014), with 624 citations. Next come "A simple colorimetric method for ascorbic acid determination in blood plasma" (234) and "Complete nucleotide sequence of a hepatitis E virus isolated from the Xinjiang epidemic (1986–1988) of China" (172).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Highly evolvable malaria vectors: The genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquitoes Daniel E. Neafsey et al. · Science Open access120 authors 28 Nov 2014 624
2 A simple colorimetric method for ascorbic acid determination in blood plasma Aye K. Kyaw · Clinica Chimica Acta Jun 1978 234
3 Complete nucleotide sequence of a hepatitis E virus isolated from the Xinjiang epidemic (1986–1988) of China Thein Thein Aye, Toshikazu Uchida, Xuezhung Ma et al. · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 1992 172
4 Anaerobic Nitrogen-Fixing Consortia Consisting of Clostridia Isolated from Gramineous Plants Kiwamu Minamisawa, KIYO NISHIOKA, Taro Miyaki et al. · Applied and Environmental Microbiology Open access May 2004 99
5 New Myanmar middle Eocene anthropoids. An Asian origin for catarrhines? Jean‐Jacques Jaeger, U Aung Niang Soe, U Aye Ko Aung et al. · Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Sciences - Series III - Sciences de la Vie Nov 1998 97
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Dagon University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Human Rights, Ethnicity, Conflict, Refugees, Myanmar, state building, Buddhism and South Asia.

▲ 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-now 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 10 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 10 words, with their numbers
  1. Human Rights2▲ 9.3×3 topics
  2. Conflict2▲ 49×2 topics
  3. Ethnicity2▲ 22×3 topics
  4. Epidemiology2▲ 1.74×13 topics
  5. Refugees1▲ 54×2 topics
  6. Myanmar1▲ 462×1 topic
  7. state building1▲ 462×1 topic
  8. Buddhism1▲ 260×1 topic
  9. South Asia1▲ 260×1 topic
  10. Sustainability1▲ 1.95×5 topics

Which research topics does Dagon University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography, Indian and Buddhist Studies, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology.

Asian Geopolitics and Et…1Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography: 1 fractional worksIndian and Buddhist Studies: 1 fractional worksAdolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: 0 fractional worksPaleontology and Evolutionary Biology: 0 fractional worksEmployee Performance and Management: 0 fractional worksEducational Methods and Media Use: 0 fractional worksGeological formations and processes: 0 fractional worksMicrobial Applications in Construction Materials: 0 fractional worksSTEM Education0STEM Education: 0 fractional worksUrban Development and Societal Issues: 0 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsReligious studiesGeneral Health ProfessionsPaleontology6 others

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

  1. 1 Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  2. 2 Indian and Buddhist Studies Religious studies 1 works
  3. 3 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health General Health Professions 0 works
  4. 4 Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology Paleontology 0 works
  5. 5 Employee Performance and Management Human Factors and Ergonomics 0 works
  6. 6 Educational Methods and Media Use Information Systems 0 works
  7. 7 Geological formations and processes Earth-Surface Processes 0 works
  8. 8 Microbial Applications in Construction Materials Environmental Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 STEM Education Education 0 works
  10. 10 Urban Development and Societal Issues Urban Studies 0 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 available38.9%not open61.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors44.9%domestic only55.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Dagon University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 39% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Dagon University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000032% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Dagon University0.000074% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Dagon University over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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