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Kenya Bureau of Standards

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Research works
25
▲ 132% vs 2013–17
Citations
308
12.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
68%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Kenya Bureau of Standards 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: 5.99× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.11× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.25× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.38× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 1.22× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 1.86× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.01× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.16× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 1.88× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.19× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksMedicineDecision Sciences: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksDecision Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 6.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Kenya Bureau of Standards?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Quality Assurance, Measurement Uncertainty, Redefinition of SI Units, Food Safety, Biosensors, Microfabrication, Nanomechanical Systems and Optomechanics.

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

All 15 words, with their numbers
  1. Quality Assurance2▲ 44×2 topics
  2. Measurement Uncertainty2▲ 350×1 topic
  3. Redefinition of SI Units2▲ 350×1 topic
  4. Food Safety2▲ 26×4 topics
  5. Biosensors2▲ 12×4 topics
  6. Microfabrication1▲ 79×2 topics
  7. Nanomechanical Systems1▲ 113×1 topic
  8. Optomechanics1▲ 113×1 topic
  9. Economic Growth1▲ 6.3×2 topics
  10. Epidemiology1▲ 1.18×9 topics
  11. Fiscal Policy1▲ 21×2 topics
  12. Actuators1▲ 31×2 topics
  13. IEEE 14511▲ 106×1 topic
  14. Smart Sensors1▲ 53×1 topic
  15. Consumer Behavior1▲ 11×3 topics

Which research topics does Kenya Bureau of Standards publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Food Safety and Hygiene, Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food, Collagen: Extraction and Characterization and Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection.

Food Safety and Hygiene1Food Safety and Hygiene: 1 fractional worksMycotoxins in Agriculture and Food: 0 fractional worksCollagen: Extraction and…0Collagen: Extraction and Characterization: 0 fractional worksIndustrial Vision System…0Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection: 0 fractional worksVibrio bacteria research…0Vibrio bacteria research studies: 0 fractional worksIdentification and Quant…0Identification and Quantification in Food: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Measurement and…0Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques: 0 fractional worksPlant biochemistry and biosynthesis: 0 fractional worksAnimal Diversity and Health Studies: 0 fractional worksMechanical and Optical Resonators: 0 fractional works
Food SciencePlant ScienceBiomaterialsIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Food Safety and Hygiene Food Science 1 works
  2. 2 Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food Plant Science 0 works
  3. 3 Collagen: Extraction and Characterization Biomaterials 0 works
  4. 4 Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Vibrio bacteria research studies Endocrinology 0 works
  6. 6 Identification and Quantification in Food Molecular Biology 0 works
  7. 7 Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis Molecular Biology 0 works
  9. 9 Animal Diversity and Health Studies Food Science 0 works
  10. 10 Mechanical and Optical Resonators Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 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 available67.9%not open32.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors47.8%domestic only52.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Kenya Bureau of Standards's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 132% 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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