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IBM Research - Africa

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Research works
41
▲ 72% vs 2013–17
Citations
383
9.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
21.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
40%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: IBM Research - 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: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.71× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 1.76× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 5.88× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.67× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.65× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 6.47× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.18× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.79× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.71× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Mathematics, 6.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at IBM Research - Africa?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Entrepreneurship, Security, Emerging Markets, Frugal Innovation and Internet of Things.

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

All 36 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning6▲ 6.9×27 topics
  2. Machine Learning6▲ 6.7×30 topics
  3. Neural Networks6▲ 13×12 topics
  4. Entrepreneurship4▲ 32×2 topics
  5. Security3▲ 15×5 topics
  6. Sustainability2▲ 3.0×3 topics
  7. Emerging Markets2▲ 99×1 topic
  8. Frugal Innovation2▲ 162×1 topic
  9. Internet of Things2▲ 9.1×2 topics
  10. Anomaly Detection2▲ 29×3 topics
  11. Social Capital2▲ 11×2 topics
  12. High-Dimensional Data2▲ 45×2 topics
  13. Information Retrieval2▲ 30×2 topics
  14. Outlier Detection2▲ 51×2 topics
  15. Text Classification2▲ 48×2 topics
  16. Epidemiology2◆ 1.03×9 topics
  17. Machine Translation2▲ 38×1 topic
  18. Word Representation2▲ 63×1 topic
  19. Crowdfunding2▲ 138×1 topic
  20. Fintech2▲ 129×1 topic
  21. IoT2▲ 18×4 topics
  22. Surveillance2▲ 24×2 topics
  23. Classification1▲ 9.2×5 topics
  24. Unsupervised1▲ 71×1 topic
  25. Video Analysis1▲ 48×1 topic
  26. Support Vector Machines1▲ 11×4 topics
  27. Healthcare1▲ 4.0×4 topics
  28. Knowledge Management1▲ 6.2×2 topics
  29. Privacy1▲ 17×2 topics
  30. Semantic Web1▲ 20×2 topics
  31. Supply Chain Management1▲ 5.5×2 topics
  32. Climate Change1◆ 0.98×8 topics
  33. Blockchain1▲ 27×1 topic
  34. Home Automation1▲ 85×1 topic
  35. Smart Contracts1▲ 42×1 topic
  36. Wireless1▲ 68×1 topic

Which research topics does IBM Research - Africa publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications, Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods, Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques and Semantic Web and Ontologies.

Anomaly Detection Techni…1Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications: 1 fractional worksGeophysical and Geoelectrical Methods: 0 fractional worksImbalanced Data Classification Techniques: 0 fractional worksSemantic Web and Ontologies: 0 fractional worksStatistical Methods and Inference: 0 fractional worksPersona Design and Applications: 0 fractional worksMachine Learning and Dat…0Machine Learning and Data Classification: 0 fractional worksGroundwater and Watershed Analysis: 0 fractional worksGeophysics and Gravity Measurements: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Statistical Met…0Advanced Statistical Methods and Models: 0 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceGeophysicsStatistics and ProbabilityHuman-Computer Interaction2 others

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

  1. 1 Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  2. 2 Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods Geophysics 0 works
  3. 3 Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  4. 4 Semantic Web and Ontologies Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  5. 5 Statistical Methods and Inference Statistics and Probability 0 works
  6. 6 Persona Design and Applications Human-Computer Interaction 0 works
  7. 7 Machine Learning and Data Classification Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  8. 8 Groundwater and Watershed Analysis Environmental Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 0 works
  10. 10 Advanced Statistical Methods and Models Statistics and Probability 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 available40.2%not open59.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors38.0%domestic only62.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has IBM Research - Africa's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 72% 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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