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Mzumbe University

In research, Mzumbe University stands highest in Social Sciences (#2,187 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#1,758 of 5,988 worldwide) and Business, Management and Accounting (#927 of 2,581 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Information Systems and Management and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (Information Systems and Management is 9.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#3,422
of 22,385 · #8,640 all time
Rank in Tanzania
#4
of 41
Research works
1.2k
▲ 159% vs 2018-21
Citations
5.9k
4.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.02×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
78%
world 40%
International
11%
world 18%
Mzumbe University

What is Mzumbe University known for in research?

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

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #2,187 of 9,585 7.2%481 #4513
Social SciencesField #1,758 of 5,988 9.2%211 #3796
Business, Management and AccountingField #927 of 2,581 6.1%135 #1664
Physical SciencesDomain #4,792 of 10,670 9.4%94 #10570
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #960 of 1,798 5.9%77 #1873

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Mzumbe 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

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

  1. Social Sciences#4,513 #2,187
  2. Social Sciences#3,796 #1,758
  3. Business, Management and Accounting#1,664 #927
  4. Physical Sciences#10,570 #4,792
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#1,873 #960
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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

Which fields of science does Mzumbe University work in?

In 2022-now, 69% of research at Mzumbe University is in Social Sciences, 14% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (31%), Business, Management and Accounting (19%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (11%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 543 fractional works · 69.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 242 fractional works · 30.9% of its workEducation: 62 fractional works · 7.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 62 fractional works · 7.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 25 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSafety Research: 19 fractional works · 2.4% of its workLaw: 14 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDemography: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAnthropology: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workUrban Studies: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGender Studies: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Administration: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCommunication: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransportation: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLinguistics and Language: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 149 fractional works · 19.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 42 fractional works · 5.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 30 fractional works · 3.8% of its workAccounting: 24 fractional works · 3.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 18 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMarketing: 16 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 11 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBusiness and International Management: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 85 fractional works · 10.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 55 fractional works · 7.0% of its workFinance: 18 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 12 fractional works · 1.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 42 fractional works · 5.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 20 fractional works · 2.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 18 fractional works · 2.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 17 fractional works · 2.1% of its workApplied Psychology: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 112 fractional works · 14.3% of its workComputer Science: 45 fractional works · 5.7% of its workInformation Systems: 32 fractional works · 4.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Science Applications: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 41 fractional works · 5.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 13 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPollution: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 18 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMedia Technology: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 67 fractional works · 8.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 65 fractional works · 8.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 24 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSoil Science: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 11 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPlant Science: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFood Science: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 62 fractional works · 7.9% of its workMedicine: 33 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 14 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 22 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 17 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHealth Information Management: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKMzumbe University784fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences14%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences69%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences24230.9%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting14919.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance8510.9%
    4. Decision Sciences425.4%
    5. Psychology172.1%
    6. Arts and Humanities81.0%
    1. Computer Science455.7%
    2. Environmental Science415.2%
    3. Engineering182.3%
    4. Energy40.5%
    5. Mathematics30.4%
    6. Materials Science10.1%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    9. Chemistry00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences658.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.2%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.1%
    1. Medicine334.2%
    2. Health Professions222.8%
    3. Nursing70.8%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Mzumbe University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Information Systems and Management takes 9.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Information Systems and ManagementSubfield · 20.5 works9.2×
  2. Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementSubfield · 29.9 works8.0×
← 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: 1.74× its world share, 65 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Chemical Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringComputer Science: 0.73× its world share, 45 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.54× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.16× its world share, 18 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.06× its world share, 41 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.30× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.08× its world share, 22 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.22× its world share, 33 worksMedicineNursing: 1.73× its world share, 7 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.34× its world share, 8 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5.89× its world share, 149 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 5.54× its world share, 42 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5.08× its world share, 85 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.69× its world share, 16 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.44× its world share, 242 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 5.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting5.89×149 works
  2. Decision Sciences5.54×42 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance5.08×85 works
  4. Social Sciences2.44×242 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.74×65 works
  6. Nursing1.73×7 works
  7. Health Professions1.08×22 works
  8. Environmental Science1.06×41 works
  9. Computer Science0.73×45 works
  10. Psychology0.69×16 works
  11. Energy0.54×4 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.34×8 works
  13. Mathematics0.30×3 works
  14. Medicine0.22×33 works
  15. Engineering0.16×18 works
  16. Immunology and Microbiology0.09×1 works
  17. Chemical Engineering0.06×0 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.05×2 works
  19. Materials Science0.02×1 works
  20. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.01×0 works
  21. Dentistry0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Mzumbe University?

Ranked on the quality score, Felician Andrew Kitole, Robert Michael Lihawa and Jennifer Kasanda Sesabo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Mzumbe University.

  1. 1 Felician Andrew Kitole Tanzania · #101,052 worldwide 846 citations · 48 works
  2. 2 Robert Michael Lihawa Tanzania · #522,854 worldwide 293 citations · 29 works
  3. 3 Jennifer Kasanda Sesabo Tanzania · #679,451 worldwide 787 citations · 63 works
  4. 4 Kelvin Mwita Tanzania · #709,950 worldwide 691 citations · 52 works
  5. 5 Nivad H. Mwilongo Tanzania · #1,178,899 worldwide 76 citations · 21 works
  6. 6 Eliaza Mkuna Tanzania · #1,190,502 worldwide 511 citations · 68 works
  7. 7 Jerum William Kilumile Tanzania · #1,254,074 worldwide 62 citations · 16 works
  8. 8 Nsubili M. Isaga Tanzania · #1,407,142 worldwide 758 citations · 38 works
  9. 9 Emmanuely Z. Nungula Tanzania · #1,408,927 worldwide 201 citations · 27 works
  10. 10 Johakim Katekele John Tanzania · #1,579,260 worldwide 41 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Mzumbe University

What are the most cited papers from Mzumbe University?

The most cited paper from Mzumbe University is "Entrepreneurial orientation, competitive advantage, and SMEs’ performance: application of firm growth and personal wealth measures" (Kibeshi Kiyabo, Nsubili M. Isaga, 2020), with 268 citations. Next come "Antecedents of continued usage intentions of web-based learning management system in Tanzania" (168) and "Factors influencing data saturation in qualitative studies" (166).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Entrepreneurial orientation, competitive advantage, and SMEs’ performance: application of firm growth and personal wealth measures Kibeshi Kiyabo, Nsubili M. Isaga · Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Open access 9 Jul 2020 268
2 Antecedents of continued usage intentions of web-based learning management system in Tanzania Edda Tandi Lwoga, Mercy Mlay Komba · Education + Training 8 Sep 2015 168
3 Factors influencing data saturation in qualitative studies Kelvin Mwita · International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478) Open access 5 Jun 2022 166
4 The role of indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation in Africa Walter Leal Filho, Jelena Barbir, Juliet Gwenzi et al. · Environmental Science & Policy 23 Jun 2022 152
5 The cost of dialysis in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review Lawrencia Mushi, Paul Marschall, Steffen Fleßa · BMC Health Services Research ReviewOpen access Jun 2015 150
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Mzumbe University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Economic Growth, Social Capital, Poverty Reduction, Sustainability, Social Networks, Supply Chain Management, Rural Development and Economic Development.

▲ 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-now 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. Sustainability57▲ 3.0×41 topics
  2. Economic Growth44▲ 6.9×19 topics
  3. Social Capital39▲ 9.5×12 topics
  4. Climate Change38▲ 1.78×33 topics
  5. Poverty Reduction36▲ 36×5 topics
  6. Supply Chain Management35▲ 5.0×16 topics
  7. Globalization33▲ 2.1×30 topics
  8. Education33▲ 2.4×23 topics
  9. Innovation33▲ 4.0×17 topics
  10. Economic Development32▲ 5.1×10 topics
  11. Social Networks29▲ 14×5 topics
  12. Rural Development27▲ 10×10 topics
  13. Risk Management27▲ 7.2×9 topics
  14. Leadership26▲ 6.9×15 topics
  15. Development25▲ 8.9×11 topics
  16. Governance25▲ 9.7×7 topics
  17. Gender Equality24▲ 11×7 topics
  18. Corporate Governance23▲ 4.0×20 topics
  19. Employee Engagement23▲ 17×6 topics
  20. Smallholder Farmers23▲ 14×4 topics
  21. Gender Inequality23▲ 21×6 topics
  22. Food Security23▲ 5.3×14 topics
  23. Organizational Performance22▲ 10×8 topics
  24. Institutional Quality21▲ 26×2 topics
  25. Customer Satisfaction21▲ 8.2×5 topics
  26. Sustainable Agriculture20▲ 8.1×5 topics
  27. ICT19▲ 18×3 topics
  28. Technology Adoption19▲ 13×4 topics
  29. Fiscal Policy18▲ 12×4 topics
  30. Organizational Culture18▲ 6.1×7 topics
  31. Vulnerability18▲ 9.7×6 topics
  32. Agricultural Innovation17▲ 47×2 topics
  33. Empowerment17▲ 23×1 topic
  34. Microfinance17▲ 43×1 topic
  35. Livelihood Diversification17▲ 69×1 topic
  36. Market Participation17▲ 69×1 topic
  37. Conditional Cash Transfers16▲ 59×1 topic
  38. School Subsidies16▲ 59×1 topic
  39. Community Health Workers16▲ 24×2 topics
  40. Poverty16▲ 22×5 topics

Which research topics does Mzumbe University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare and Technology Adoption and User Behaviour.

Microfinance and Financi…17Microfinance and Financial Inclusion: 17 fractional worksAgricultural Innovations…17Agricultural Innovations and Practices: 17 fractional worksPoverty, Education, and …16Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 16 fractional worksTechnology Adoption and …14Technology Adoption and User Behaviour: 14 fractional worksEconomic Growth and Development: 13 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 13 fractional worksIslamic Finance and Bank…9Islamic Finance and Banking Studies: 9 fractional worksPublic Procurement and Policy: 9 fractional worksAgricultural risk and resilience: 9 fractional worksEnergy and Environment I…9Energy and Environment Impacts: 9 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesSafety ResearchInformation Systems and Management6 others

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

  1. 1 Microfinance and Financial Inclusion Economics and Econometrics 17 works
  2. 2 Agricultural Innovations and Practices General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 works
  3. 3 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 16 works
  4. 4 Technology Adoption and User Behaviour Information Systems and Management 14 works
  5. 5 Economic Growth and Development Information Systems 13 works
  6. 6 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 13 works
  7. 7 Islamic Finance and Banking Studies Accounting 9 works
  8. 8 Public Procurement and Policy Strategy and Management 9 works
  9. 9 Agricultural risk and resilience Soil Science 9 works
  10. 10 Energy and Environment Impacts Pollution 9 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 available77.8%not open22.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.2%domestic only88.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Mzumbe University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 159% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Mzumbe University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0041% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Mzumbe University0.0043% in 202519801990200020102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Mzumbe University8.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 9.5% in 2023.

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