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Moi University

In research, Moi University stands highest in Social Sciences (#3,338 of 10,521 worldwide), Health Sciences (#3,933 of 11,982 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#2,830 of 6,365 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Accounting — Accounting is 7.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#7,583
of 28,054 · #10,243 all time
Rank in Kenya
#8
of 75
Research works
4.1k
▲ 58% vs 2013–17
Citations
40k
9.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
70%
world 28%

What is Moi University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #3,338 of 10,521 10.3%608 #3401
Health SciencesDomain #3,933 of 11,982 11.0%230 #5408
Social SciencesField #2,830 of 6,365 10.8%253 #2056
MedicineField #5,756 of 10,443 10.6%167 #7027
Physical SciencesDomain #7,546 of 12,888 10.3%230 #11575
Business, Management and AccountingField #1,532 of 2,578 11.4%150 #1760
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #2,618 of 3,409 14.6%61 #2777
Life SciencesDomain #6,308 of 7,800 12.8%85 #7136
EngineeringField #5,392 of 6,636 12.0%75 #8966
EducationSubfield #1,558 of 1,892 14.3%67 #1905

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Moi University 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#3,401 #3,338
  2. Health Sciences#5,408 #3,933
  3. Social Sciences#2,056 #2,830
  4. Medicine#7,027 #5,756
  5. Physical Sciences#11,575 #7,546
  6. Business, Management and Accounting#1,760 #1,532
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#2,777 #2,618
  8. Life Sciences#7,136 #6,308
  9. Engineering#8,966 #5,392
  10. Education#1,905 #1,558
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Moi University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Accounting takes 7.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. AccountingSubfield · 55.5 works7.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 1.12× its world share, 61 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.23× its world share, 14 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.53× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.40× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.17× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.44× its world share, 40 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.75× its world share, 19 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.43× its world share, 75 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.04× its world share, 60 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.44× its world share, 18 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.87× its world share, 12 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.47× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.69× its world share, 52 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.75× its world share, 167 worksMedicineNursing: 1.50× its world share, 8 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.23× its world share, 41 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4.03× its world share, 150 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.15× its world share, 24 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.90× its world share, 96 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.25× its world share, 44 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.73× its world share, 253 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Moi University?

Ranked on the composite score, Fabian Esamai, J. R. Okalebo and C. O. Othieno lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Moi University.

  1. 1 Fabian Esamai · #343,150 worldwide 55 citations · 23 works
  2. 2 J. R. Okalebo · #344,372 worldwide 59 citations · 27 works
  3. 3 C. O. Othieno · #528,790 worldwide 52 citations · 33 works
  4. 4 Paula Braitstein · #604,436 worldwide 61 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Lameck Diero · #674,077 worldwide 46 citations · 16 works
  6. 6 Sonak Pastakia · #1,073,061 worldwide 13 citations · 20 works
  7. 7 Festus Njuguna · #1,244,079 worldwide 16 citations · 17 works
  8. 8 Omenge Orang’o · #1,276,377 worldwide 9 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 Peter Itsura · #1,284,627 worldwide 3 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Violet Naanyu · #1,336,684 worldwide 21 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Moi University

Which keywords describe research at Moi University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Fiscal Policy, Institutional Quality, Labor Market, Corruption, Informal Economy, Tax Evasion, Corporate Governance and Leadership.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Sustainability52▲ 1.83×55 topics
  2. Fiscal Policy49▲ 20×4 topics
  3. Globalization49▲ 2.1×50 topics
  4. Institutional Quality44▲ 36×2 topics
  5. Labor Market43▲ 13×5 topics
  6. Corruption42▲ 23×4 topics
  7. Informal Economy40▲ 67×1 topic
  8. Tax Evasion40▲ 70×1 topic
  9. Renewable Energy40▲ 2.4×30 topics
  10. Corporate Governance39▲ 4.6×14 topics
  11. Human Rights35▲ 3.0×27 topics
  12. Economic Growth35▲ 3.5×18 topics
  13. Innovation33▲ 2.7×27 topics
  14. Supply Chain Management31▲ 2.9×16 topics
  15. Environmental Impact31▲ 1.56×35 topics
  16. Leadership30▲ 5.5×17 topics
  17. Social Capital28▲ 4.6×12 topics
  18. Development27▲ 6.8×12 topics
  19. Poverty Reduction24▲ 16×4 topics
  20. Higher Education20▲ 3.2×15 topics
  21. Community Health Workers19▲ 20×2 topics
  22. Financial Reporting19▲ 14×4 topics
  23. Gender Inequality18▲ 12×6 topics
  24. Maternal Mortality18▲ 7.1×5 topics
  25. Financial Constraints18▲ 14×2 topics
  26. Social Responsibility17▲ 6.4×5 topics
  27. Performance Measurement17▲ 5.2×5 topics
  28. Antiretroviral Therapy16▲ 8.5×6 topics
  29. Health Inequalities16▲ 11×3 topics
  30. Child Mortality15▲ 18×1 topic
  31. Conditional Cash Transfers15▲ 34×1 topic
  32. Health Systems15▲ 18×1 topic
  33. Multinational Firms15▲ 21×2 topics
  34. School Subsidies15▲ 34×1 topic
  35. Tax Avoidance14▲ 29×2 topics
  36. Corporate Tax14▲ 38×1 topic
  37. Incentives14▲ 17×1 topic
  38. NGOs14▲ 12×4 topics
  39. Mergers and Acquisitions13▲ 12×2 topics
  40. Investor Protection13▲ 14×1 topic

Which research topics does Moi University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Taxation and Compliance Studies, Global Maternal and Child Health, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare and Corporate Taxation and Avoidance.

Taxation and Compliance …40Taxation and Compliance Studies: 40 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 15 fractional worksPoverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 15 fractional worksCorporate Taxation and Avoidance: 14 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Governance: 13 fractional worksEnergy and Environment Impacts: 12 fractional worksTechnology Adoption and …10Technology Adoption and User Behaviour: 10 fractional worksRangeland Management and Livestock Ecology: 9 fractional worksQuality and Supply Management: 9 fractional worksIslamic Finance and Banking Studies: 8 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthSafety ResearchAccounting4 others

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

  1. 1 Taxation and Compliance Studies Economics and Econometrics 40 works
  2. 2 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 15 works
  3. 3 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 15 works
  4. 4 Corporate Taxation and Avoidance Accounting 14 works
  5. 5 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 13 works
  6. 6 Energy and Environment Impacts Pollution 12 works
  7. 7 Technology Adoption and User Behaviour Information Systems and Management 10 works
  8. 8 Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 9 works
  9. 9 Quality and Supply Management Management Information Systems 9 works
  10. 10 Islamic Finance and Banking Studies Accounting 8 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 available70.3%not open29.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.5%domestic only75.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Moi University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 58% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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