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Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection

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Research works
20
▼ 23% vs 2018-21
Citations
129
6.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
37.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
33%
world 40%
International
5%
world 18%
Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection

Not ranked overall: Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection work in?

In all years, 84% of research at Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection is in Social Sciences, 12% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (72%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (7%), Environmental Science (4%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 17 fractional works · 84.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 14 fractional works · 72.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 8 fractional works · 40.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 10.5% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 6.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 6.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 11.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKMapungubweInstitute for…20fractional works, all years
Life Sciences0%Physical Sciences12%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences84%

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 4 domains and 13 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1472.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance16.7%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting02.5%
    4. Psychology01.7%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.9%
    1. Environmental Science14.2%
    2. Energy02.5%
    3. Engineering02.5%
    4. Materials Science02.5%
    1. Medicine13.0%
    2. Health Professions00.7%
    3. Nursing00.3%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
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 Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection?

Ranked on the quality score, Radhika Perrot lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection.

  1. 1 Radhika Perrot South Africa · #3,721,608 worldwide 72 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection

What are the most cited papers from Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection?

The most cited paper from Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection is "Changing place names in post-apartheid South Africa: accounting for the unevenness" (Mcebisi Ndletyana, 2012), with 49 citations. Next come "The stuff that dreams are made of: HIV ‐positive adolescents’ aspirations for development" (32) and "Pesky metrics: the challenges of measuring ART adherence among HIV-positive adolescents in South Africa" (30).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Changing place names in post-apartheid South Africa: accounting for the unevenness Mcebisi Ndletyana · Social Dynamics Mar 2012 49
2 The stuff that dreams are made of: HIV ‐positive adolescents’ aspirations for development Rebecca Hodes, Jenny Doubt, Elona Toska et al. · Journal of the International AIDS Society Open access Feb 2018 32
3 Pesky metrics: the challenges of measuring ART adherence among HIV-positive adolescents in South Africa Rebecca Hodes, Lucie Dale Cluver, Elona Toska et al. · Critical Public Health Open access 28 Nov 2018 30
4 Innovation dynamics of the wind energy industry in South Africa and Brazil: technological and institutional lock-ins André Tosi Furtado, Radhika Perrot · Innovation and Development Open access 3 Jul 2015 30
5 Whose just energy transition? A South African perspective Nqobile Xaba · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Energy and Environment Open access 9 May 2023 22
All 29 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: European Union Policy and Governance, South African History and Culture, Energy and Environment Impacts and Labor Movements and Unions.

European Union Policy an…1European Union Policy and Governance: 1 fractional worksSouth African History and Culture: 1 fractional worksEnergy and Environment Impacts: 1 fractional worksLabor Movements and Unions0Labor Movements and Unions: 0 fractional worksGlobal Energy and Sustai…0Global Energy and Sustainability Research: 0 fractional worksGlobal Political and Social Dynamics: 0 fractional worksLocal Economic Development and Planning: 0 fractional worksSocial Acceptance of Renewable Energy: 0 fractional worksGraphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies: 0 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsSociology and Political SciencePollutionPublic Administration2 others

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

  1. 1 European Union Policy and Governance Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  2. 2 South African History and Culture Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  3. 3 Energy and Environment Impacts Pollution 1 works
  4. 4 Labor Movements and Unions Public Administration 0 works
  5. 5 Global Energy and Sustainability Research Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 0 works
  6. 6 Global Political and Social Dynamics Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  7. 7 Local Economic Development and Planning Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  8. 8 Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  9. 9 Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies Materials Chemistry 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 available32.9%not open67.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors4.8%domestic only95.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000019% in 2023.

still counting0.000025%0.000050%0.000075%Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection0.0000085% in 20252020

Fractional works of Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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