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Metabiota (Cameroon)

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Research works
11
▼ 30% vs 2018-21
Citations
145
13.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
77%
world 40%
International
73%
world 18%
Metabiota (Cameroon)

Not ranked overall: Metabiota (Cameroon) 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 Metabiota (Cameroon) work in?

In all years, 53% of research at Metabiota (Cameroon) is in Health Sciences, 21% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (49%), Social Sciences (9%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (9%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 6 fractional works · 53.3% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 48.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 18.0% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 13.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 11.5% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 20.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 8.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 8.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 5.5% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 16.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 8.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMolecular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workForestry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 9.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 5.7% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 4.7% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKMetabiota(Cameroon)11fractional works, all years
Life Sciences17%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences53%Social Sciences21%

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. Medicine548.9%
    2. Health Professions03.5%
    3. Nursing00.9%
    1. Social Sciences18.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance18.7%
    3. Psychology02.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology18.1%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology04.5%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences04.2%
    1. Environmental Science15.7%
    2. Computer Science03.1%
    3. Mathematics00.4%
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: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.15× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 1.03× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEnvironmental Science: 2.48× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 1.37× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.69× its world share, 1 worksMedicineEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 10.32× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.37× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.71× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 10.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 11 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.32×1 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology4.15×0 works
  3. Environmental Science2.48×0 works
  4. Medicine1.69×1 works
  5. Health Professions1.37×0 works
  6. Psychology1.37×0 works
  7. Computer Science1.03×0 works
  8. Social Sciences0.71×0 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.54×0 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.27×0 works
  11. Mathematics0.21×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Metabiota (Cameroon)?

Ranked on the quality score, Joseph Le Doux Diffo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Metabiota (Cameroon).

  1. 1 Joseph Le Doux Diffo Cameroon · #1,655,678 worldwide 1.2k citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Metabiota (Cameroon)

What are the most cited papers from Metabiota (Cameroon)?

The most cited paper from Metabiota (Cameroon) is "The role of sex work laws and stigmas in increasing HIV risks among sex workers" (Carrie E. Lyons, Sheree Schwartz, Sarah McIvor Murray et al., 2020), with 149 citations. Next come "The People Living with HIV Stigma Index 2.0: generating critical evidence for change worldwide" (77) and "Market characteristics and zoonotic disease risk perception in Cameroon bushmeat markets" (70).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The role of sex work laws and stigmas in increasing HIV risks among sex workers Carrie E. Lyons, Sheree Schwartz, Sarah McIvor Murray et al. · Nature Communications Open access 18 Feb 2020 149
2 The People Living with HIV Stigma Index 2.0: generating critical evidence for change worldwide Barbara Friedland, Ann Gottert, Julian Hows et al. · AIDS Open access Sep 2020 77
3 Market characteristics and zoonotic disease risk perception in Cameroon bushmeat markets Karen E. Saylors, Mohamed Moctar Mouliom Mouiche, Ashley G. Lucas et al. · Social Science & Medicine Open access 17 Sep 2020 70
4 Associations between punitive policies and legal barriers to consensual same-sex sexual acts and HIV among gay men and other men who have sex with men in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry, respondent-driven sampling survey Carrie E. Lyons et al. · The Lancet HIV Open access 6 Jan 2023 61
5 Knowledge, attitude and practices of snakebite management amongst health workers in Cameroon: Need for continuous training and capacity building Fabien Taieb, Timothée Dub, Yoann Madec et al. · PLoS neglected tropical diseases Open access 25 Oct 2018 52
All 56 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Metabiota (Cameroon) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Energy and Environment Impacts, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds and Economic Growth and Development.

Energy and Environment Impacts: 0 fractional worksClimate Change Policy and Economics: 0 fractional worksSustainable Finance and Green Bonds: 0 fractional worksEconomic Growth and Development: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental law and policy: 0 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and In…0HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 0 fractional worksHIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk: 0 fractional worksMalaria Research and Control: 0 fractional worksMosquito-borne diseases and control: 0 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 0 fractional works
PollutionEconomics and EconometricsFinanceInformation Systems4 others

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

  1. 1 Energy and Environment Impacts Pollution 0 works
  2. 2 Climate Change Policy and Economics Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  3. 3 Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds Finance 0 works
  4. 4 Economic Growth and Development Information Systems 0 works
  5. 5 Environmental law and policy Law 0 works
  6. 6 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 0 works
  7. 7 HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Epidemiology 0 works
  8. 8 Malaria Research and Control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  9. 9 Mosquito-borne diseases and control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  10. 10 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 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 available76.6%not open23.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors72.9%domestic only27.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Metabiota (Cameroon)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% 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 Metabiota (Cameroon) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000013% in 2024.

still counting0.000020%0.000040%0.000060%Metabiota (Cameroon)0.000038% in 20252020

Fractional works of Metabiota (Cameroon) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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