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ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability Africa

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Research works
7
▲ 478% vs 2013–17
Citations
53
7.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
33.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
45%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability 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: 9.36× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Engineering: 1.48× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.12× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.72× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.60× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 1.32× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 9.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which research topics does ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability Africa publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Urban Agriculture and Sustainability, Agriculture and Rural Development Research, Urban Design and Spatial Analysis and Urban and Rural Development Challenges.

Urban Agriculture and Su…0Urban Agriculture and Sustainability: 0 fractional worksAgriculture and Rural Development Research: 0 fractional worksUrban Design and Spatial Analysis: 0 fractional worksUrban and Rural Developm…0Urban and Rural Development Challenges: 0 fractional worksFood Waste Reduction and Sustainability: 0 fractional worksCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts: 0 fractional worksSustainability and Climate Change Governance: 0 fractional worksSustainable Building Design and Assessment: 0 fractional worksPublic-Private Partnership Projects: 0 fractional worksLegal Issues in South Africa: 0 fractional works
Plant ScienceEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsBuilding and ConstructionUrban Studies5 others

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

  1. 1 Urban Agriculture and Sustainability Plant Science 0 works
  2. 2 Agriculture and Rural Development Research Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  3. 3 Urban Design and Spatial Analysis Building and Construction 0 works
  4. 4 Urban and Rural Development Challenges Urban Studies 0 works
  5. 5 Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability Food Science 0 works
  6. 6 COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  7. 7 Sustainability and Climate Change Governance Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  8. 8 Sustainable Building Design and Assessment Building and Construction 0 works
  9. 9 Public-Private Partnership Projects Strategy and Management 0 works
  10. 10 Legal Issues in South Africa Law 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 available45.2%not open54.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors34.2%domestic only65.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability Africa's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 478% 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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