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Epicentre Uganda

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Research works
45
▼ 23% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.2k
26.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
79%
world 40%
International
65%
world 18%
Epicentre Uganda

Not ranked overall: Epicentre Uganda 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 Epicentre Uganda work in?

In all years, 72% of research at Epicentre Uganda is in Health Sciences, 18% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (68%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%), Immunology and Microbiology (7%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 33 fractional works · 72.0% of its workMedicine: 31 fractional works · 68.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 8 fractional works · 18.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 7 fractional works · 14.8% of its workEpidemiology: 6 fractional works · 14.0% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 4.5% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 3.8% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 17.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 8.4% of its workMolecular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 7.2% of its workVirology: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKEpicentre Uganda45fractional works, all years
Life Sciences18%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences72%Social Sciences6%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. 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 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine3168.2%
    2. Health Professions12.2%
    3. Nursing11.3%
    4. Veterinary00.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology48.4%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology37.2%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences11.9%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.3%
    5. Neuroscience00.2%
    1. Social Sciences12.8%
    2. Psychology11.4%
    3. Arts and Humanities00.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.6%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.3%
    1. Environmental Science11.9%
    2. Engineering11.5%
    3. Computer Science00.5%
    4. Mathematics00.4%
    5. Materials Science00.1%
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: 0.52× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 7.31× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.87× its world share, 6 worksMedicineNursing: 1.79× its world share, 0 worksNursingEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 7.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 11 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology7.31×1 works
  2. Medicine3.87×6 works
  3. Nursing1.79×0 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.52×0 works
  5. Health Professions0.39×0 works
  6. Social Sciences0.37×0 works
  7. Computer Science0.33×0 works
  8. Engineering0.33×0 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.19×0 works
  10. Environmental Science0.10×0 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Epicentre Uganda?

Ranked on the quality score, Dan Nyehangane and Carolyn Nabasumba lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Epicentre Uganda.

  1. 1 Dan Nyehangane Uganda · #1,115,443 worldwide 1.4k citations · 59 works
  2. 2 Carolyn Nabasumba Uganda · #1,687,262 worldwide 947 citations · 27 works
All ranked researchers at Epicentre Uganda

What are the most cited papers from Epicentre Uganda?

The most cited paper from Epicentre Uganda is "Narrative Exposure Therapy as a treatment for child war survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder: Two case reports and a pilot study in an African refugee settlement" (Lamaro P. Onyut, Frank Neuner, Elisabeth Schauer et al., 2005), with 177 citations. Next come "Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine and Artemether-Lumefantrine for Treating Uncomplicated Malaria in African Children: A Randomised, Non-Inferiority Trial" (164) and "Impact of malaria during pregnancy on pregnancy outcomes in a Ugandan prospectivecohort with intensive malaria screening and prompt treatment" (159).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Narrative Exposure Therapy as a treatment for child war survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder: Two case reports and a pilot study in an African refugee settlement Lamaro P. Onyut, Frank Neuner, Elisabeth Schauer et al. · BMC Psychiatry Open access 3 Feb 2005 177
2 Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine and Artemether-Lumefantrine for Treating Uncomplicated Malaria in African Children: A Randomised, Non-Inferiority Trial Quique Bassat, Modest Mulenga, Halidou Tinto et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 16 Nov 2009 164
3 Impact of malaria during pregnancy on pregnancy outcomes in a Ugandan prospectivecohort with intensive malaria screening and prompt treatment Pierre De Beaudrap, Eleanor Turyakira, Lisa J. White et al. · Malaria Journal Open access 24 Apr 2013 159
4 The Kynurenine Pathway of Tryptophan Catabolism, CD4+ T-Cell Recovery, and Mortality Among HIV-Infected Ugandans Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy Helen Byakwaga, Yap Boum, Ying Huang et al. · The Journal of Infectious Diseases Open access 28 Feb 2014 152
5 Advancing equitable global health research partnerships in Africa Yap Boum, Bridget Burns, Mark Jacob Siedner et al. · BMJ Global Health Open access Aug 2018 142
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Epicentre Uganda?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Drug Resistance, Vaccine, Diagnosis, Treatment, Immune Response, Vaccine Development and Genome Sequence.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Epidemiology19▲ 10×42 topics
  2. Drug Resistance7▲ 50×6 topics
  3. Vaccine6▲ 35×8 topics
  4. Diagnosis6▲ 13×7 topics
  5. Treatment6▲ 9.8×5 topics
  6. Immune Response6▲ 20×9 topics
  7. Vaccine Development5▲ 39×6 topics
  8. Genome Sequence5▲ 99×2 topics
  9. Global Burden4▲ 16×7 topics
  10. Genetic Diversity4▲ 17×3 topics
  11. Antiretroviral Therapy4▲ 36×6 topics
  12. Mycobacterium tuberculosis4▲ 128×1 topic
  13. Tuberculosis4▲ 154×1 topic
  14. Vector Control3▲ 64×2 topics
  15. Insecticide Resistance3▲ 73×3 topics
  16. Antibiotic Resistance3▲ 17×6 topics
  17. Artemisinin Resistance3▲ 170×1 topic
  18. Plasmodium falciparum3▲ 170×1 topic
  19. Chemotherapy2▲ 6.8×5 topics
  20. Antimicrobial Resistance2▲ 17×4 topics
  21. Public Health2▲ 3.2×15 topics
  22. Chagas Disease2▲ 157×1 topic
  23. Trypanosoma cruzi2▲ 157×1 topic
  24. Maternal Mortality2▲ 21×4 topics
  25. Pathogenesis2▲ 6.8×8 topics
  26. Arboviral Diseases2▲ 54×1 topic
  27. HIV Transmission2▲ 39×2 topics
  28. Viral Load2▲ 49×2 topics
  29. Zika Virus2▲ 54×1 topic
  30. Abdominal Tuberculosis1▲ 139×1 topic
  31. Child Mortality1▲ 56×1 topic
  32. Diagnostic Challenges1▲ 139×1 topic
  33. HIV1▲ 25×3 topics
  34. HIV Infection1▲ 25×3 topics
  35. Health Systems1▲ 56×1 topic
  36. Mortality Rates1▲ 31×2 topics
  37. Respiratory Infections1▲ 32×3 topics
  38. Preexposure Prophylaxis1▲ 49×1 topic
  39. Stigma and Discrimination1▲ 49×1 topic
  40. Vaccination1▲ 36×2 topics

Which research topics does Epicentre Uganda publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology, Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis and Malaria Research and Control.

Tuberculosis Research an…1Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 1 fractional worksPneumonia and Respiratory Infections: 0 fractional worksDiagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis: 0 fractional worksMalaria Research and Control: 0 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 0 fractional worksMycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions: 0 fractional worksCOVID-19 diagnosis using AI: 0 fractional worksMycobacterium research and diagnosis: 0 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 0 fractional worksPneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment: 0 fractional works
Infectious DiseasesEpidemiologySurgeryPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health3 others

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

  1. 1 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 1 works
  2. 2 Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections Epidemiology 0 works
  3. 3 Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis Surgery 0 works
  4. 4 Malaria Research and Control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  5. 5 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 0 works
  6. 6 Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions Plant Science 0 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 diagnosis using AI Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 0 works
  8. 8 Mycobacterium research and diagnosis Epidemiology 0 works
  9. 9 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 0 works
  10. 10 Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment Epidemiology 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 available79.2%not open20.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors64.8%domestic only35.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Epicentre Uganda's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% 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 Epicentre Uganda as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000055% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Epicentre Uganda0.000013% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Epicentre Uganda over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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