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Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique

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World rank, all time
#33,184
of 42,892
Rank in Mozambique
#10
of 14
Research works
185
▲ 87% vs 2013–17
Citations
2.4k
13.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
74%
world 28%

What does Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Agricultural and Biological Sciences takes 11.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Agricultural and Biological SciencesField · 28.7 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 11.30× its world share, 29 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.25× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.91× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 4.13× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.68× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.42× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.86× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.27× its world share, 3 worksMedicineNursing: 1.59× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.83× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 11.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Drought Tolerance, Genetic Diversity, Sustainable Agriculture, Genetics, Sustainability, Climate Change, QTL Mapping and Breeding.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Drought Tolerance6▲ 85×7 topics
  2. Genetic Diversity6▲ 24×11 topics
  3. Climate Change4▲ 3.1×19 topics
  4. Sustainability4▲ 3.4×15 topics
  5. Genetics3▲ 8.0×3 topics
  6. Sustainable Agriculture3▲ 18×10 topics
  7. QTL Mapping3▲ 41×5 topics
  8. Breeding2▲ 62×4 topics
  9. Smallholder Farmers2▲ 21×5 topics
  10. Nutritional Quality2▲ 59×3 topics
  11. Domestication2▲ 85×2 topics
  12. Soil Fertility2▲ 19×5 topics
  13. Genetic Improvement2▲ 45×3 topics
  14. Plant Breeding2▲ 43×3 topics
  15. Antioxidant Activity2▲ 6.3×7 topics
  16. Food Security2▲ 7.3×6 topics
  17. Nitrogen Fixation2▲ 55×2 topics
  18. Plant Nutrition2▲ 41×3 topics
  19. Marker Development2▲ 77×2 topics
  20. Biodiversity2▲ 4.8×9 topics
  21. Agriculture2▲ 8.3×4 topics
  22. Antioxidant2▲ 4.9×10 topics
  23. Genome Analysis2▲ 34×2 topics
  24. Genome Sequencing2▲ 22×3 topics
  25. Morphological Parameters2▲ 164×1 topic
  26. Substrates2▲ 164×1 topic
  27. Agroecology2▲ 22×3 topics
  28. Climate Resilience2▲ 53×2 topics
  29. Cultivar Evaluation2▲ 144×1 topic
  30. Genotype-by-Environment Interaction2▲ 144×1 topic
  31. Rural Development2▲ 9.0×5 topics
  32. Agricultural Sustainability2▲ 27×2 topics
  33. Adaptation2▲ 10×4 topics
  34. Cowpea2▲ 110×1 topic
  35. Legume Crop2▲ 110×1 topic
  36. Social Networks2▲ 11×2 topics
  37. Bioactive Compounds1▲ 10.0×5 topics
  38. Host Recognition1▲ 40×2 topics
  39. AFLP Markers1▲ 82×2 topics
  40. Genomics1▲ 8.3×6 topics

Which research topics does Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Growth and nutrition in plants, Genetics and Plant Breeding, Agricultural pest management studies and Soybean genetics and cultivation.

Growth and nutrition in …2Growth and nutrition in plants: 2 fractional worksGenetics and Plant Breed…2Genetics and Plant Breeding: 2 fractional worksAgricultural pest management studies: 2 fractional worksSoybean genetics and cultivation: 1 fractional worksBanana Cultivation and Research: 1 fractional worksLegume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis: 1 fractional worksAgricultural Innovations and Practices: 1 fractional worksLocal Economic Developme…1Local Economic Development and Planning: 1 fractional worksForest ecology and management: 1 fractional worksAgronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems: 1 fractional works
Plant ScienceGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesPolitical Science and International RelationsNature and Landscape Conservation1 others

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

  1. 1 Growth and nutrition in plants Plant Science 2 works
  2. 2 Genetics and Plant Breeding Plant Science 2 works
  3. 3 Agricultural pest management studies Plant Science 2 works
  4. 4 Soybean genetics and cultivation Plant Science 1 works
  5. 5 Banana Cultivation and Research Plant Science 1 works
  6. 6 Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis Plant Science 1 works
  7. 7 Agricultural Innovations and Practices General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 works
  8. 8 Local Economic Development and Planning Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  9. 9 Forest ecology and management Nature and Landscape Conservation 1 works
  10. 10 Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems Agronomy and Crop Science 1 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 available73.7%not open26.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors68.9%domestic only31.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 87% 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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