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Mountcrest University College

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Research works
20
▼ 28% vs 2018-21
Citations
146
7.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
52%
world 40%
International
26%
world 18%
Mountcrest University College

Not ranked overall: Mountcrest University College is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Mountcrest University College work in?

In all years, 87% of research at Mountcrest University College is in Social Sciences, 8% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (63%), Arts and Humanities (8%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (7%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 17 fractional works · 86.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 62.5% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 23.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 12.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 9.6% of its workUrban Studies: 2 fractional works · 7.6% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 5.7% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 8.0% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 6.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 8.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workALL ITS WORKMountcrestUniversity…20fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences87%

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 3 domains and 13 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1262.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities28.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance16.5%
    4. Psychology16.1%
    5. Decision Sciences02.5%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting01.2%
    1. Environmental Science13.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences02.2%
    3. Computer Science01.4%
    4. Energy01.1%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.6%
    1. Medicine13.4%
    2. Health Professions01.3%
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.

Computer Science: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4.20× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.79× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEnvironmental Science: 1.82× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.74× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyArts and Humanities: 0.86× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.69× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.38× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 4.81× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Social Sciences, 4.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 9 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences4.81×4 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences4.20×0 works
  3. Psychology3.38×1 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.69×0 works
  5. Environmental Science1.82×1 works
  6. Energy1.79×0 works
  7. Arts and Humanities0.86×0 works
  8. Physics and Astronomy0.74×0 works
  9. Computer Science0.21×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Mountcrest University College?

The most cited paper from Mountcrest University College is "Policy initiation and political levers in health policy: lessons from Ghana’s health insurance" (Anthony Theophilus Seddoh, Samuel Akortey Akor, 2012), with 64 citations. Next come "The Developmental State Experiment in Africa: the Experiences of Ghana and South Africa" (48) and "Public Administrators Under Democratic Governance in Ghana" (34).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Policy initiation and political levers in health policy: lessons from Ghana’s health insurance Anthony Theophilus Seddoh, Samuel Akortey Akor · BMC Public Health Open access Jun 2012 64
2 The Developmental State Experiment in Africa: the Experiences of Ghana and South Africa Joseph R. A. Ayee · The Round Table 10 May 2013 48
3 Public Administrators Under Democratic Governance in Ghana Joseph R. A. Ayee · International Journal of Public Administration 11 Apr 2013 34
4 Factors influencing the choice of teaching as a career: an empirical study of students in colleges of education in Ghana Anselm Komla Abotsi, Cynthia Fofo Dsane, Pearl Adiza Babah et al. · Contemporary Social Science 8 Oct 2019 16
5 Operationalization of Ghana’s civil service code of conduct Franklin Akosa, Emmanuel Yeboah‐Assiamah, Bossman E. Asare et al. · Public Money & Management 11 Apr 2019 7
All 33 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Mountcrest University College publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Urban and Rural Development Challenges, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Teacher Education and Leadership Studies and Natural Resources and Economic Development.

Urban and Rural Developm…1Urban and Rural Development Challenges: 1 fractional worksPoverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 0 fractional worksTeacher Education and Le…0Teacher Education and Leadership Studies: 0 fractional worksNatural Resources and Ec…0Natural Resources and Economic Development: 0 fractional worksOnline and Blended Learning: 0 fractional worksEducation and Critical Thinking Development: 0 fractional worksEducational Practices an…0Educational Practices and Challenges: 0 fractional worksChildren's Rights and Pa…0Children's Rights and Participation: 0 fractional worksChild and Animal Learnin…0Child and Animal Learning Development: 0 fractional worksHuman Rights and Develop…0Human Rights and Development: 0 fractional works
Urban StudiesSafety ResearchEducationGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance2 others

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

  1. 1 Urban and Rural Development Challenges Urban Studies 1 works
  2. 2 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 0 works
  3. 3 Teacher Education and Leadership Studies Education 0 works
  4. 4 Natural Resources and Economic Development General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0 works
  5. 5 Online and Blended Learning Education 0 works
  6. 6 Education and Critical Thinking Development Education 0 works
  7. 7 Educational Practices and Challenges Education 0 works
  8. 8 Children's Rights and Participation Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  9. 9 Child and Animal Learning Development Developmental and Educational Psychology 0 works
  10. 10 Human Rights and Development Sociology and Political Science 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 available51.9%not open48.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.7%domestic only74.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Mountcrest University College's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% 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 Mountcrest University College as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000045% in 2024.

still counting0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Mountcrest University College0.000060% in 20252020

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

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