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Hospital / health system · Lilongwe · Malawi

Lighthouse Trust

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Research works
58
▲ 22% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.2k
20.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
26.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
83%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Lighthouse Trust 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.

Immunology and Microbiology: 4.61× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.70× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.91× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceHealth Professions: 5.22× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.02× its world share, 9 worksMedicineNursing: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.78× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.50× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.75× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 5.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Lighthouse Trust?

Ranked on the composite score, Tom Heller and Hannock Tweya lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Lighthouse Trust.

  1. 1 Tom Heller Malawi · #785,815 worldwide 21 citations · 22 works
  2. 2 Hannock Tweya Malawi · #946,620 worldwide 27 citations · 27 works
All ranked researchers at Lighthouse Trust

Which keywords describe research at Lighthouse Trust?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Antiretroviral Therapy, HIV Transmission, Mortality Rates, Viral Load, Preexposure Prophylaxis, Stigma and Discrimination, HIV Infection and HIV.

▲ 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 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. Antiretroviral Therapy24▲ 181×6 topics
  2. HIV Transmission13▲ 263×2 topics
  3. Mortality Rates13▲ 231×2 topics
  4. Viral Load13▲ 318×2 topics
  5. Preexposure Prophylaxis12▲ 386×1 topic
  6. Stigma and Discrimination12▲ 386×1 topic
  7. HIV Infection7▲ 103×4 topics
  8. Epidemiology6▲ 2.6×31 topics
  9. HIV6▲ 89×4 topics
  10. Drug Resistance6▲ 31×3 topics
  11. Immune Response5▲ 15×7 topics
  12. Risk Factors5▲ 8.1×4 topics
  13. Vaccine5▲ 21×7 topics
  14. Integrase Inhibitors4▲ 186×1 topic
  15. Nucleoside Analogues4▲ 186×1 topic
  16. HIV Prevention4▲ 113×2 topics
  17. Adolescent Health4▲ 85×1 topic
  18. Sexual Behavior4▲ 177×1 topic
  19. AIDS4▲ 115×1 topic
  20. Antibodies4▲ 68×1 topic
  21. Cardiovascular Disease4▲ 5.4×7 topics
  22. Community Health Workers3▲ 76×2 topics
  23. Diagnosis3▲ 5.3×10 topics
  24. Insulin Resistance3▲ 11×2 topics
  25. Inflammation3▲ 2.1×3 topics
  26. Treatment3▲ 3.7×6 topics
  27. Aging2▲ 8.1×1 topic
  28. HIV/AIDS2▲ 60×3 topics
  29. Metabolic Abnormalities2▲ 198×1 topic
  30. Maternal Mortality2▲ 23×2 topics
  31. Child Mortality2▲ 71×1 topic
  32. Health Systems2▲ 71×1 topic
  33. Chronic Disease Management2▲ 26×4 topics
  34. Adherence2▲ 54×2 topics
  35. Behavior Change2▲ 30×2 topics
  36. Cancer Incidence2▲ 24×3 topics
  37. Mobile Health2▲ 40×2 topics
  38. Health Apps2▲ 96×1 topic
  39. mHealth2▲ 96×1 topic
  40. Opportunistic Infections2▲ 69×2 topics

Which research topics does Lighthouse Trust publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV-related health complications and treatments.

HIV/AIDS Research and In…3HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 3 fractional worksMobile Health and mHealt…1Mobile Health and mHealth Applications: 1 fractional worksAdolescent Sexual and Re…1Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: 1 fractional worksHIV-related health compl…1HIV-related health complications and treatments: 1 fractional worksICT in Developing Commun…1ICT in Developing Communities: 1 fractional worksTeacher Education and Le…0Teacher Education and Leadership Studies: 0 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Impact and Responses: 0 fractional worksHIV/AIDS drug development and treatment: 0 fractional worksHIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk: 0 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 0 fractional works
Infectious DiseasesGeneral Health ProfessionsEmergency MedicineInformation Systems4 others

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

  1. 1 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 3 works
  2. 2 Mobile Health and mHealth Applications General Health Professions 1 works
  3. 3 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health General Health Professions 1 works
  4. 4 HIV-related health complications and treatments Emergency Medicine 1 works
  5. 5 ICT in Developing Communities Information Systems 1 works
  6. 6 Teacher Education and Leadership Studies Education 0 works
  7. 7 HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  8. 8 HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment Infectious Diseases 0 works
  9. 9 HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Epidemiology 0 works
  10. 10 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 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 available83.0%not open17.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors88.5%domestic only11.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Lighthouse Trust's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 22% higher than in 2013–2017.

201020152020
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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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