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Infection Control Africa Network

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Research works
13
▲ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
339
26.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
75%
world 40%
International
54%
world 18%
Infection Control Africa Network

Not ranked overall: Infection Control Africa Network 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 Infection Control Africa Network work in?

In all years, 68% of research at Infection Control Africa Network is in Health Sciences, 15% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (42%), Health Professions (23%), Social Sciences (9%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 9 fractional works · 68.4% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 41.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 13.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 7.2% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 5.1% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 23.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 12.4% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 10.0% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 14.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 9.1% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 5.2% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 5.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 13.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workMolecular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 6.2% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKInfection ControlAfrica Network13fractional works, all years
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences68%Social Sciences15%

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 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine541.9%
    2. Health Professions323.3%
    3. Nursing03.2%
    1. Social Sciences19.1%
    2. Decision Sciences15.2%
    3. Psychology00.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology16.9%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology16.2%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.8%
    1. Mathematics02.6%
    2. Engineering00.2%
    3. Environmental Science00.2%
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: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.81× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.88× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Environmental Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.80× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 5.55× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.96× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 14.00× its world share, 0 worksNursingDecision Sciences: 13.61× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 1.29× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 14.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 10 fields, with their numbers
  1. Nursing14.00×0 works
  2. Decision Sciences13.61×1 works
  3. Health Professions5.55×1 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology4.88×0 works
  5. Medicine1.96×2 works
  6. Social Sciences1.29×1 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.81×0 works
  8. Mathematics0.80×0 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.20×0 works
  10. Environmental Science0.07×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Infection Control Africa Network?

The most cited paper from Infection Control Africa Network is "Managing COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries" (Joost Hopman, Benedetta Allegranzi, Shaheen Mehtar, 2020), with 576 citations. Next come "Characterization of antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative bacteria that cause neonatal sepsis in seven low- and middle-income countries" (472) and "Neonatal sepsis and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries from a facility-based birth cohort: an international multisite prospective observational study" (259).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Managing COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Joost Hopman, Benedetta Allegranzi, Shaheen Mehtar · JAMA Open access 16 Mar 2020 576
2 Characterization of antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative bacteria that cause neonatal sepsis in seven low- and middle-income countries Kirsty M. Sands et al. · Nature Microbiology Open access 29 Mar 2021 472
3 Neonatal sepsis and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries from a facility-based birth cohort: an international multisite prospective observational study Rebecca Milton et al. · The Lancet Global Health Open access 12 Apr 2022 259
4 Limiting the spread of COVID-19 in Africa: one size mitigation strategies do not fit all countries Shaheen Mehtar, Wolfgang Preiser, Ndèye Aïssatou Lakhe et al. · The Lancet Global Health Open access 28 Apr 2020 151
5 Hand hygiene in low- and middle-income countries Michael J. Loftus, Chloé Guitart, Ermira Tartari et al. · International Journal of Infectious Diseases Open access 9 Jun 2019 147
All 55 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Infection Control Africa Network publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Global Health Workforce Issues, Educational Assessment and Improvement, Higher Education Learning Practices and Infant Nutrition and Health.

Global Health Workforce …0Global Health Workforce Issues: 0 fractional worksEducational Assessment a…0Educational Assessment and Improvement: 0 fractional worksHigher Education Learning Practices: 0 fractional worksInfant Nutrition and Hea…0Infant Nutrition and Health: 0 fractional worksHealth Policy Implementa…0Health Policy Implementation Science: 0 fractional worksEducation and experience…0Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees: 0 fractional worksEvaluation and Performan…0Evaluation and Performance Assessment: 0 fractional worksNeonatal and Maternal Infections: 0 fractional worksInfection Control in Healthcare: 0 fractional worksAntibiotic Use and Resis…0Antibiotic Use and Resistance: 0 fractional works
Emergency Medical ServicesInformation Systems and ManagementEducationNutrition and Dietetics5 others

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

  1. 1 Global Health Workforce Issues Emergency Medical Services 0 works
  2. 2 Educational Assessment and Improvement Information Systems and Management 0 works
  3. 3 Higher Education Learning Practices Education 0 works
  4. 4 Infant Nutrition and Health Nutrition and Dietetics 0 works
  5. 5 Health Policy Implementation Science General Health Professions 0 works
  6. 6 Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees Education 0 works
  7. 7 Evaluation and Performance Assessment Management Science and Operations Research 0 works
  8. 8 Neonatal and Maternal Infections Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  9. 9 Infection Control in Healthcare Infectious Diseases 0 works
  10. 10 Antibiotic Use and Resistance Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 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 available74.9%not open25.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors53.6%domestic only46.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Infection Control Africa Network's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Infection Control Africa Network as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000011% in 2024.

still counting0.000020%0.000040%0.000060%Infection Control Africa Network0.000020% in 202520102020

Fractional works of Infection Control Africa Network over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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