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Donald Woods Foundation

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Research works
4
▼ 100% vs 2018-21
Citations
68
18.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
93%
world 40%
International
48%
world 18%
Donald Woods Foundation

Not ranked overall: Donald Woods Foundation 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 Donald Woods Foundation work in?

In all years, 42% of research at Donald Woods Foundation is in Health Sciences, 39% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (34%), Arts and Humanities (13%), Environmental Science (8%).

Health Sciences: 2 fractional works · 42.1% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 34.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 7.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 39.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 13.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 7.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 7.9% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 13.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 7.9% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workALL ITS WORKDonald WoodsFoundation4fractional works, all years
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences13%Health Sciences42%Social Sciences39%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine134.2%
    2. Health Professions07.9%
    1. Arts and Humanities013.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance07.9%
    3. Social Sciences07.9%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting05.3%
    5. Psychology05.3%
    1. Environmental Science07.9%
    2. Engineering05.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology05.3%
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.

    What are the most cited papers from Donald Woods Foundation?

    The most cited paper from Donald Woods Foundation is "Dementia Prevalence in a Rural Region of South Africa: A Cross-Sectional Community Study" (Celeste A. de Jager, William Msemburi, Katy Pepper et al., 2017), with 72 citations. Next come "Primary healthcare services in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa: Evaluating a service-support project" (40) and "Detection, referral and control of diabetes and hypertension in the rural Eastern Cape Province of South Africa by community health outreach workers in the rural primary healthcare project: Health in Every Hut" (36).

    Most cited papers
    #PaperReleasedCitations
    1 Dementia Prevalence in a Rural Region of South Africa: A Cross-Sectional Community Study Celeste A. de Jager, William Msemburi, Katy Pepper et al. · Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Open access 3 Oct 2017 72
    2 Primary healthcare services in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa: Evaluating a service-support project Angela A. Morris-Paxton, Steve Reid, Rose-Marie G. Ewing · African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine Open access 2 Apr 2020 40
    3 Detection, referral and control of diabetes and hypertension in the rural Eastern Cape Province of South Africa by community health outreach workers in the rural primary healthcare project: Health in Every Hut Angela A. Morris-Paxton, Paul Rheeder, Rose-Marie G. Ewing et al. · African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine Open access 11 Apr 2018 36
    4 The noncommunicable disease outcomes of primary healthcare screening in two rural subdistricts of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa Paul Rheeder, Angela A. Morris-Paxton, Rose-Marie G. Ewing et al. · African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine Open access 30 Oct 2017 18
    5 Providing high-quality HIV care in a deeply rural setting – the Zithulele experience Catherine Young, Benjamin Gaunt · Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine Open access 26 Feb 2014 5
    All 6 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

    Which research topics does Donald Woods Foundation publish most on?

    By volume: HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Linguistics and Education Research, Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research.

    HIV/AIDS Research and In…0HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 0 fractional worksLinguistics and Educatio…0Linguistics and Education Research: 0 fractional worksCultural, Media, and Lit…0Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies: 0 fractional worksDementia and Cognitive I…0Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research: 0 fractional worksCultural Industries and Urban Development: 0 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 0 fractional worksHealth disparities and o…0Health disparities and outcomes: 0 fractional worksAlzheimer's disease research and treatments: 0 fractional worksBiological Research and Disease Studies: 0 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Impact and Resp…0HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses: 0 fractional works
    Infectious DiseasesLiterature and Literary TheoryPhilosophyPsychiatry and Mental health5 others

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

    1. 1 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 0 works
    2. 2 Linguistics and Education Research Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
    3. 3 Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies Philosophy 0 works
    4. 4 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 0 works
    5. 5 Cultural Industries and Urban Development Urban Studies 0 works
    6. 6 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 0 works
    7. 7 Health disparities and outcomes Health 0 works
    8. 8 Alzheimer's disease research and treatments Physiology 0 works
    9. 9 Biological Research and Disease Studies Molecular Biology 0 works
    10. 10 HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses Economics and Econometrics 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 available93.2%not open6.8%

    World: 40% of research is openly available.

    with international co-authors47.7%domestic only52.3%

    World: 18% is written across borders.

    How has Donald Woods Foundation's research output changed?

    Output in 2022-2025 was 100% lower than in 2018-2021.

    20152020

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