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Lancaster University Ghana

In research, Lancaster University Ghana stands highest in Social Sciences (#4,263 of 14,833 worldwide), Social Sciences (#3,390 of 9,330 worldwide) and Political Science and International Relations (#1,160 of 2,238 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#8,566
of 34,923
Rank in Ghana
#13
of 53
Research works
3.3k
▲ 11% vs 2018-21
Citations
66k
20.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.83×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
9%
world 40%
International
38%
world 18%
Lancaster University Ghana

What is Lancaster University Ghana known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Social SciencesDomain #4,263 of 14,833 12.3%2,327
Social SciencesField #3,390 of 9,330 13.7%1,112
Political Science and International RelationsSubfield #1,160 of 2,238 14.9%353
Arts and HumanitiesField #2,010 of 3,511 11.7%661
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #2,550 of 4,066 14.3%334
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #2,129 of 3,142 10.2%207
Physics and AstronomyField #2,207 of 2,917 5.9%124
Business, Management and AccountingField #3,074 of 3,886 9.4%138
Economics and EconometricsSubfield #1,926 of 2,401 9.8%146
Physical SciencesDomain #14,125 of 17,446 10.2%694

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Lancaster University Ghana sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Lancaster University Ghana work in?

In 2022-now, 57% of research at Lancaster University Ghana is in Social Sciences, 33% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (30%), Computer Science (12%), Mathematics (11%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 35 fractional works · 56.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 19 fractional works · 30.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 9.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 4.3% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workLinguistics and Language: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 fractional works · 8.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 6.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 4.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 21 fractional works · 33.2% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 12.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 5.5% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 5.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 7 fractional works · 11.0% of its workGeometry and Topology: 4 fractional works · 6.4% of its workMathematical Physics: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTheoretical Computer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.1% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKLancasterUniversity Ghana63fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences33%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences57%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1930.1%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting58.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities46.5%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance34.3%
    5. Decision Sciences34.2%
    6. Psychology22.9%
    1. Computer Science812.4%
    2. Mathematics711.0%
    3. Physics and Astronomy23.5%
    4. Engineering11.9%
    5. Environmental Science11.5%
    6. Materials Science11.3%
    7. Chemistry11.0%
    8. Energy00.4%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology11.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.3%
    3. Neuroscience11.2%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences11.0%
    1. Medicine34.1%
    2. Health Professions10.9%
    3. Nursing00.1%
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: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.59× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.73× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.66× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.59× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.38× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 9.34× its world share, 7 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.58× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.21× its world share, 3 worksMedicineNursing: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 2.26× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.66× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.37× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.99× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.96× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.38× its world share, 19 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Mathematics, 9.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Mathematics9.34×7 works
  2. Decision Sciences4.37×3 works
  3. Business, Management and Accounting2.66×5 works
  4. Social Sciences2.38×19 works
  5. Arts and Humanities2.26×4 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.99×3 works
  7. Immunology and Microbiology1.59×1 works
  8. Computer Science1.59×8 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy1.58×2 works
  10. Psychology0.96×2 works
  11. Neuroscience0.73×1 works
  12. Chemistry0.66×1 works
  13. Energy0.41×0 works
  14. Materials Science0.38×1 works
  15. Health Professions0.34×1 works
  16. Environmental Science0.30×1 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.25×1 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.21×1 works
  19. Medicine0.21×3 works
  20. Nursing0.14×0 works
  21. Engineering0.13×1 works
  22. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.10×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Lancaster University Ghana?

Ranked on the quality score, Janet Finch, Francis Katamba and Harold James Perkin lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Lancaster University Ghana.

  1. 1 Janet Finch Ghana · #1,119,937 worldwide 8k citations · 126 works
  2. 2 Francis Katamba Ghana · #1,348,210 worldwide 1.8k citations · 73 works
  3. 3 Harold James Perkin Ghana · #1,454,517 worldwide 4.9k citations · 211 works
  4. 4 Nicholas Abercrombie Ghana · #1,459,008 worldwide 2.8k citations · 49 works
  5. 5 J. E. King Ghana · #1,496,864 worldwide 458 citations · 25 works
  6. 6 John A. Hughes Ghana · #1,728,573 worldwide 3.5k citations · 101 works
  7. 7 Frank N. Sibley Ghana · #1,972,379 worldwide 1.5k citations · 39 works
  8. 8 Ruth Henig Ghana · #2,585,499 worldwide 373 citations · 59 works
  9. 9 Stephen Pumfrey Ghana · #2,789,976 worldwide 762 citations · 68 works
  10. 10 John K. Walton Ghana · #2,855,089 worldwide 2.7k citations · 279 works
All ranked researchers at Lancaster University Ghana

What are the most cited papers from Lancaster University Ghana?

The most cited paper from Lancaster University Ghana is "Understanding face recognition" (Vicki Bruce, Andy Young, 1986), with 3,987 citations. Next come "Soft Systems Methodology in Action" (3,400) and "Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Failure" (1,910).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Understanding face recognition Vicki Bruce, Andy Young · British Journal of Psychology Open access Aug 1986 3,987
2 Soft Systems Methodology in Action Thomas Gough, Peter B. Checkland, Jim Scholes · Journal of the Operational Research Society Sep 1991 3,400
3 Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Failure J. THOMAS · Applied Linguistics Open access Feb 1983 1,910
4 Critical Discourse Analysis and the Marketization of Public Discourse: The Universities Norman L. Fairclough · Discourse & Society Apr 1993 1,817
5 Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff Russell Keat · Philosophical Books 1980 1,597
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Lancaster University Ghana?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Sentiment Analysis, Identity, Colonialism, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Globalization, Support Vector Machines and Knot Invariants.

▲ 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-now 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. Deep Learning4▲ 2.0×10 topics
  2. Machine Learning4▲ 2.1×15 topics
  3. Globalization4▲ 2.9×13 topics
  4. Neural Networks3▲ 3.0×6 topics
  5. Sentiment Analysis3▲ 41×2 topics
  6. Identity3▲ 6.1×6 topics
  7. Human Rights2▲ 3.9×5 topics
  8. Colonialism2▲ 7.9×6 topics
  9. Support Vector Machines2▲ 11×3 topics
  10. Social Capital2▲ 6.6×7 topics
  11. Knot Invariants2▲ 212×1 topic
  12. Symplectic Geometry2▲ 88×2 topics
  13. Symplectic Topology2▲ 212×1 topic
  14. Stock Market Prediction2▲ 55×1 topic
  15. Time Series Forecasting2▲ 55×1 topic
  16. Feminism2▲ 10×5 topics
  17. Intersectionality2▲ 15×3 topics
  18. Global South2▲ 43×2 topics
  19. Language Policy2▲ 19×2 topics
  20. Multilingualism2▲ 17×2 topics
  21. Nationalism2▲ 5.9×4 topics
  22. Poverty2▲ 28×2 topics
  23. Gender Equality2▲ 9.2×4 topics
  24. Entrepreneurship2▲ 5.9×4 topics
  25. Feminist Theory2▲ 54×2 topics
  26. Indian Ocean2▲ 126×1 topic
  27. prehistoric movement2▲ 126×1 topic
  28. Inclusion1▲ 16×2 topics
  29. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy1▲ 48×1 topic
  30. Epidemiological Study1▲ 31×1 topic
  31. Governance1▲ 6.2×3 topics
  32. Gromov-Witten Theory1▲ 110×1 topic
  33. Moduli Theory1▲ 110×1 topic
  34. Social Model of Disability1▲ 132×1 topic
  35. Text Classification1▲ 13×3 topics
  36. Translanguaging1▲ 48×1 topic
  37. Decentralization1▲ 9.0×2 topics
  38. Dynamical Systems1▲ 28×2 topics
  39. Empire1▲ 22×2 topics
  40. Emotion Recognition1▲ 9.0×2 topics

Which research topics does Lancaster University Ghana publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Geometric and Algebraic Topology, Stock Market Forecasting Methods, Global Maritime and Colonial Histories and Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory.

Geometric and Algebraic …2Geometric and Algebraic Topology: 2 fractional worksStock Market Forecasting…2Stock Market Forecasting Methods: 2 fractional worksGlobal Maritime and Colo…2Global Maritime and Colonial Histories: 2 fractional worksAlgebraic Geometry and N…1Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory: 1 fractional worksDisability Rights and Representation: 1 fractional worksMultilingual Education and Policy: 1 fractional worksAuthorship Attribution a…1Authorship Attribution and Profiling: 1 fractional worksMacrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor: 1 fractional worksNonlinear Waves and Solitons: 1 fractional worksSentiment Analysis and O…1Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining: 1 fractional works
Geometry and TopologyManagement Science and Operations ResearchAnthropologySafety Research4 others

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

  1. 1 Geometric and Algebraic Topology Geometry and Topology 2 works
  2. 2 Stock Market Forecasting Methods Management Science and Operations Research 2 works
  3. 3 Global Maritime and Colonial Histories Anthropology 2 works
  4. 4 Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory Geometry and Topology 1 works
  5. 5 Disability Rights and Representation Safety Research 1 works
  6. 6 Multilingual Education and Policy Linguistics and Language 1 works
  7. 7 Authorship Attribution and Profiling Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  8. 8 Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor Immunology 1 works
  9. 9 Nonlinear Waves and Solitons Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 1 works
  10. 10 Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining Artificial Intelligence 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 available8.9%not open91.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors37.8%domestic only62.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Lancaster University Ghana's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% 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 Lancaster University Ghana as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00016% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Lancaster University Ghana0.00026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Lancaster University Ghana over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

10%20%30%all institutions10.0% in 2023Lancaster University Ghana6.3% in 2023200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 20.5% in 2011.

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