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Kenya National Library Service

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Research works
10
◆ 0% vs 2018-21
Citations
28
2.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
3%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
Kenya National Library Service

Not ranked overall: Kenya National Library Service 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 Kenya National Library Service work in?

In all years, 71% of research at Kenya National Library Service is in Social Sciences, 21% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (53%), Business, Management and Accounting (17%), Computer Science (10%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 7 fractional works · 71.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 52.6% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 4 fractional works · 35.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 10.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 17.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 13.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 21.3% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 10.3% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 10.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 7.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 7.7% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.7% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 7.7% of its workALL ITS WORKKenya NationalLibrary Service10fractional works, all years
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences21%Social Sciences71%

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 3 domains and 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences552.6%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting217.1%
    3. Psychology01.2%
    1. Computer Science110.3%
    2. Environmental Science17.7%
    3. Engineering03.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences17.7%
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.

Who are the top researchers at Kenya National Library Service?

Ranked on the quality score, Joshua Malidzo Nyawa lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kenya National Library Service.

  1. 1 Joshua Malidzo Nyawa Kenya · #2,654,996 worldwide 9 citations · 31 works
All ranked researchers at Kenya National Library Service

What are the most cited papers from Kenya National Library Service?

The most cited paper from Kenya National Library Service is "Camel Library Service to Nomadic Pastoralists: The Kenyan Scenario" (Richard M. Atuti, 1999), with 9 citations. Next come "Managing adaptation of buildings to library use: a case study of community libraries in Kenya" (6) and "The role of the Kenya National Library Service in the provision of information for youth empowerment in Nairobi County, Kenya" (5).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Camel Library Service to Nomadic Pastoralists: The Kenyan Scenario Richard M. Atuti · IFLA Journal Jun 1999 9
2 Managing adaptation of buildings to library use: a case study of community libraries in Kenya Richard M. Atuti · Library Review Jul 2001 6
3 The role of the Kenya National Library Service in the provision of information for youth empowerment in Nairobi County, Kenya Betty A. Kalugho · Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 30 Aug 2016 5
4 Private camel library brings hope to pastoralists: the Kenyan experience Richard M. Atuti, J.R. Ikoja‐Odongo · Library Review Feb 1999 4
5 Transition from Camel Libraries to Digital Technologies in Kenya Public Libraries Zablon Pingo · Public Library Quarterly 2 Jan 2015 4
All 88 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Kenya National Library Service publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Library Science and Information Literacy, Library Science and Administration, Library Collection Development and Digital Resources and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare.

Library Science and Info…0Library Science and Information Literacy: 0 fractional worksLibrary Science and Admi…0Library Science and Administration: 0 fractional worksLibrary Collection Devel…0Library Collection Development and Digital Resources: 0 fractional worksPoverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 0 fractional worksEmotional Intelligence and Performance: 0 fractional works
Library and Information SciencesInformation SystemsSafety ResearchSocial Psychology

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

  1. 1 Library Science and Information Literacy Library and Information Sciences 0 works
  2. 2 Library Science and Administration Library and Information Sciences 0 works
  3. 3 Library Collection Development and Digital Resources Information Systems 0 works
  4. 4 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 0 works
  5. 5 Emotional Intelligence and Performance Social Psychology 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 available2.6%not open97.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.7%domestic only92.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Kenya National Library Service's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Kenya National Library Service as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000097% in 2021.

0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Kenya National Library Service0.000019% in 2022200020102020

Fractional works of Kenya National Library Service over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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