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MTN (Uganda)

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Research works
18
▲ 173% vs 2018-21
Citations
120
6.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
45%
world 40%
International
38%
world 18%
MTN (Uganda)

Not ranked overall: MTN (Uganda) 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 MTN (Uganda) work in?

In all years, 41% of research at MTN (Uganda) is in Social Sciences, 29% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (31%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (18%), Medicine (10%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 7 fractional works · 40.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 30.9% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 16.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 7.7% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 28.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 18.1% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 9.2% of its workForestry: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 18.9% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 10.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 8.0% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 8.0% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 12.0% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 6.0% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workALL ITS WORKMTN (Uganda)18fractional works, all years
Life Sciences29%Physical Sciences12%Health Sciences19%Social Sciences41%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences630.9%
    2. Psychology13.4%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting02.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance02.6%
    5. Decision Sciences00.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences318.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology16.9%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology13.5%
    1. Medicine210.0%
    2. Nursing18.0%
    3. Health Professions00.9%
    1. Computer Science16.0%
    2. Engineering13.2%
    3. Environmental Science02.3%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.6%
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: 0.92× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.82× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 6.88× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Earth and Planetary Sciences: 1.39× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.06× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMedicine: 0.88× its world share, 1 worksMedicineNursing: 4.45× its world share, 0 worksNursingEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.80× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.71× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.74× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 6.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 11 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology6.88×0 works
  2. Nursing4.45×0 works
  3. Social Sciences3.74×2 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.80×0 works
  5. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.39×0 works
  6. Environmental Science1.06×0 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.92×0 works
  8. Medicine0.88×1 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.82×0 works
  10. Psychology0.71×0 works
  11. Engineering0.15×0 works

What are the most cited papers from MTN (Uganda)?

The most cited paper from MTN (Uganda) is "The influence of caregiver depression on adolescent mental health outcomes: findings from refugee settlements in Uganda" (Sarah Rachel Meyer, Mara C. Steinhaus, Clare Ahabwe Bangirana et al., 2017), with 65 citations. Next come "Designing energy efficient target tracking protocol with quality monitoring in wireless sensor networks" (27) and "Milk Hygiene in Rural Southwestern Uganda: Prevalence of Mastitis and Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles of Bacterial Contaminants of Milk and Milk Products" (26).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The influence of caregiver depression on adolescent mental health outcomes: findings from refugee settlements in Uganda Sarah Rachel Meyer, Mara C. Steinhaus, Clare Ahabwe Bangirana et al. · BMC Psychiatry Open access Dec 2017 65
2 Designing energy efficient target tracking protocol with quality monitoring in wireless sensor networks Minyi Guo, Elizabeth Olule, Guojun Wang et al. · The Journal of Supercomputing 27 Apr 2009 27
3 Milk Hygiene in Rural Southwestern Uganda: Prevalence of Mastitis and Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles of Bacterial Contaminants of Milk and Milk Products Paul Ssajjakambwe, Gloria Bahizi, Christopher Setumba et al. · Veterinary Medicine International Open access 2017 26
4 Maternal employment and fatherhood: what influences paternal involvement in child-care work in Uganda? Apollo M. Nkwake · Gender & Development Jul 2009 20
5 Geographic and Socioeconomic Influence on Knowledge and Practices Related to Antimicrobial Resistance among Smallholder Pig Farmers in Uganda Sandra Nohrborg, Michel Mainack Dione, Amia Christine Winfred et al. · Antibiotics Open access 15 Feb 2022 17
All 30 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does MTN (Uganda) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Online and Blended Learning, Religion, Society, and Development, Innovative Education and Learning Practices and Higher Education Learning Practices.

Online and Blended Learn…0Online and Blended Learning: 0 fractional worksReligion, Society, and D…0Religion, Society, and Development: 0 fractional worksInnovative Education and Learning Practices: 0 fractional worksHigher Education Learnin…0Higher Education Learning Practices: 0 fractional worksInformation Systems Theo…0Information Systems Theories and Implementation: 0 fractional worksHigher Education and Employability: 0 fractional worksPharmaceutical Economics and Policy: 0 fractional worksPharmaceutical Quality a…0Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting: 0 fractional worksPharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts: 0 fractional worksAntibiotic Use and Resistance: 0 fractional works
EducationSociology and Political ScienceHuman Factors and ErgonomicsEconomics and Econometrics3 others

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

  1. 1 Online and Blended Learning Education 0 works
  2. 2 Religion, Society, and Development Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  3. 3 Innovative Education and Learning Practices Human Factors and Ergonomics 0 works
  4. 4 Higher Education Learning Practices Education 0 works
  5. 5 Information Systems Theories and Implementation Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  6. 6 Higher Education and Employability Education 0 works
  7. 7 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  8. 8 Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  9. 9 Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts Pollution 0 works
  10. 10 Antibiotic Use and Resistance Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 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 available45.4%not open54.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors37.6%domestic only62.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has MTN (Uganda)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 173% higher 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 MTN (Uganda) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000060% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%MTN (Uganda)0.000046% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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