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Nurses' Training College, Ho

In research, Nurses' Training College, Ho stands highest in Health Sciences (#5,824 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#6,574 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#11,794
of 22,385 · #20,883 all time
Rank in Ghana
#28
of 45
Research works
320
▲ 213% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.8k
5.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.95×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
76%
world 40%
International
28%
world 18%
Nurses' Training College, Ho

What is Nurses' Training College, Ho 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
Health SciencesDomain #5,824 of 9,902 11.6%94 #9893
MedicineField #6,574 of 8,541 11.0%64 #10422

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Nurses' Training College, Ho 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 fields of science does Nurses' Training College, Ho work in?

In 2022-now, 56% of research at Nurses' Training College, Ho is in Health Sciences, 32% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (38%), Social Sciences (17%), Health Professions (12%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 114 fractional works · 55.7% of its workMedicine: 78 fractional works · 38.1% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 18 fractional works · 9.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 12 fractional works · 6.1% of its workEpidemiology: 9 fractional works · 4.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 5 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEmergency Medicine: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workOncology: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 25 fractional works · 12.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 14 fractional works · 6.9% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPharmacy: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 10 fractional works · 4.9% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 5 fractional works · 2.4% of its workResearch and Theory: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 66 fractional works · 32.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 35 fractional works · 17.2% of its workEducation: 12 fractional works · 5.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 10 fractional works · 4.9% of its workHealth: 6 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSafety Research: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 18 fractional works · 8.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 11 fractional works · 5.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 fractional works · 2.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 18 fractional works · 8.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 9 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEcology: 8 fractional works · 3.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 3.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKNurses' TrainingCollege, Ho204fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences56%Social Sciences32%

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. Medicine7838.1%
    2. Health Professions2512.5%
    3. Nursing104.9%
    4. Veterinary00.2%
    5. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Social Sciences3517.2%
    2. Psychology188.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance62.9%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting52.4%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.6%
    6. Decision Sciences10.4%
    1. Environmental Science94.5%
    2. Engineering31.7%
    3. Computer Science31.5%
    4. Mathematics10.7%
    5. Materials Science10.4%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology21.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences21.0%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.6%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.4%
    5. Neuroscience10.2%
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: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.04× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.16× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.20× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.11× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.91× its world share, 9 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.61× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 4.74× its world share, 26 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.98× its world share, 78 worksMedicineNursing: 10.07× its world share, 10 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.14× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.75× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.42× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.34× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.86× its world share, 18 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.36× its world share, 35 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 10.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Nursing10.07×10 works
  2. Health Professions4.74×26 works
  3. Psychology2.86×18 works
  4. Medicine1.98×78 works
  5. Social Sciences1.36×35 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.34×6 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.16×1 works
  8. Veterinary1.14×0 works
  9. Immunology and Microbiology1.04×2 works
  10. Environmental Science0.91×9 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.75×5 works
  12. Mathematics0.61×2 works
  13. Decision Sciences0.42×1 works
  14. Dentistry0.24×0 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.20×2 works
  16. Computer Science0.20×3 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.20×1 works
  18. Neuroscience0.15×0 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.12×1 works
  20. Engineering0.11×4 works
  21. Materials Science0.10×1 works
  22. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Nurses' Training College, Ho?

Ranked on the quality score, Brenda Abena Nyarko, Abubakari Wuni and Ibrahim Yakubu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Nurses' Training College, Ho.

  1. 1 Brenda Abena Nyarko Ghana · #889,606 worldwide 221 citations · 20 works
  2. 2 Abubakari Wuni Ghana · #1,076,819 worldwide 202 citations · 41 works
  3. 3 Ibrahim Yakubu Ghana · #1,452,343 worldwide 883 citations · 18 works
  4. 4 Mudasir Mohammed Ibrahim Ghana · #1,667,331 worldwide 104 citations · 28 works
  5. 5 Yakubu H. Yakubu Ghana · #1,930,897 worldwide 494 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Abdul-Malik Abdulai Ghana · #2,366,844 worldwide 117 citations · 29 works
  7. 7 Jemima Dennis-Antwi Ghana · #2,372,323 worldwide 387 citations · 20 works
  8. 8 Afizu Alhassan Ghana · #2,469,418 worldwide 258 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 I. Mohammed Ghana · #2,842,029 worldwide 74 citations · 25 works
  10. 10 Alfred Addy Ghana · #3,083,218 worldwide 116 citations · 36 works
All ranked researchers at Nurses' Training College, Ho

What are the most cited papers from Nurses' Training College, Ho?

The most cited paper from Nurses' Training College, Ho is "Adolescents’ reproductive health knowledge, choices and factors affecting reproductive health choices: a qualitative study in the West Gonja District in Northern region, Ghana" (Joseph Maaminu Kyilleh, Philip Teg‐Nefaah Tabong, Benson Boinkum Konlaan, 2018), with 185 citations. Next come "Motivational factors for blood donation, potential barriers, and knowledge about blood donation in first-time and repeat blood donors" (114) and "The Impact of COVID-19 on Education in Ghana" (104).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Adolescents’ reproductive health knowledge, choices and factors affecting reproductive health choices: a qualitative study in the West Gonja District in Northern region, Ghana Joseph Maaminu Kyilleh, Philip Teg‐Nefaah Tabong, Benson Boinkum Konlaan · BMC International Health and Human Rights Open access 23 Jan 2018 185
2 Motivational factors for blood donation, potential barriers, and knowledge about blood donation in first-time and repeat blood donors Shamsudeen Mohammed, Harry Barton Essel · BMC Hematology Open access Dec 2018 114
3 The Impact of COVID-19 on Education in Ghana Joshua-Luther Ndoye Upoalkpajor, Cornelius Bawa Upoalkpajor · Asian Journal of Education and Social Studies Open access 27 Jun 2020 104
4 Assessing the impact of an educational intervention program on sexual abstinence based on the health belief model amongst adolescent girls in Northern Ghana, a cluster randomised control trial Ibrahim Yakubu, Gholamreza Garmaroudi, Roya Sadeghi et al. · Reproductive Health Open access 15 Aug 2019 77
5 Female adolescents’ reproductive health decision-making capacity and contraceptive use in sub-Saharan Africa: What does the future hold? Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, John Elvis Hagan, Abdul‐Aziz Seidu et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 10 Jul 2020 73
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Which keywords describe research at Nurses' Training College, Ho?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Maternal Mortality, Community Health Workers, Health Inequalities, Child Mortality, Health Systems, Epidemiology, Global Burden and Fuzzy Mathematics.

▲ 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. Epidemiology16▲ 2.0×48 topics
  2. Maternal Mortality13▲ 29×4 topics
  3. Community Health Workers12▲ 68×2 topics
  4. Health Inequalities12▲ 49×2 topics
  5. Child Mortality12▲ 82×1 topic
  6. Health Systems12▲ 82×1 topic
  7. Risk Factors10▲ 4.3×17 topics
  8. Mental Health10▲ 3.2×20 topics
  9. COVID-199▲ 3.3×11 topics
  10. Depression8▲ 4.8×11 topics
  11. Risk Assessment8▲ 6.2×6 topics
  12. Global Burden8▲ 7.2×10 topics
  13. Fuzzy Mathematics8▲ 178×1 topic
  14. Set Pair Analysis8▲ 178×1 topic
  15. Quality of Life7▲ 2.4×18 topics
  16. Public Health7▲ 2.4×23 topics
  17. Child Development7▲ 7.8×4 topics
  18. Pandemic6▲ 3.2×7 topics
  19. Risk Perception6▲ 12×3 topics
  20. Job Satisfaction6▲ 6.7×9 topics
  21. Primary Care6▲ 7.3×12 topics
  22. Cancer Incidence5▲ 18×2 topics
  23. Global Access5▲ 30×2 topics
  24. COVID-19 Vaccine5▲ 35×1 topic
  25. Vaccine Hesitancy5▲ 39×1 topic
  26. Global Burden of Disease5▲ 9.7×4 topics
  27. Adolescents5▲ 6.4×7 topics
  28. Psychological Distress4▲ 9.1×5 topics
  29. Maternal and Child Undernutrition4▲ 27×1 topic
  30. Water Sanitation Hygiene4▲ 27×1 topic
  31. Nursing Education4▲ 16×4 topics
  32. Coping Strategies4▲ 8.0×6 topics
  33. Mortality Rates4▲ 21×2 topics
  34. Psychological Impact4▲ 6.3×6 topics
  35. Healthcare Workers4▲ 7.8×5 topics
  36. Antiretroviral Therapy4▲ 11×4 topics
  37. Healthcare Quality4▲ 18×4 topics
  38. Human Papillomavirus4▲ 14×2 topics
  39. Cervical Cancer3▲ 16×3 topics
  40. Patient Outcomes3▲ 27×2 topics

Which research topics does Nurses' Training College, Ho publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Global Maternal and Child Health, Research studies in Vietnam, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy and Child Nutrition and Water Access.

Global Maternal and Chil…12Global Maternal and Child Health: 12 fractional worksResearch studies in Vietnam: 8 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 5 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Water Access: 4 fractional worksCervical Cancer and HPV Research: 3 fractional worksVietnamese History and C…3Vietnamese History and Culture Studies: 3 fractional worksNursing education and management: 3 fractional worksPoverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 3 fractional worksAdolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: 2 fractional worksCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts: 2 fractional works
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthEcologyHealthNutrition and Dietetics6 others

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

  1. 1 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 12 works
  2. 2 Research studies in Vietnam Ecology 8 works
  3. 3 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 5 works
  4. 4 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 4 works
  5. 5 Cervical Cancer and HPV Research Epidemiology 3 works
  6. 6 Vietnamese History and Culture Studies Sociology and Political Science 3 works
  7. 7 Nursing education and management Research and Theory 3 works
  8. 8 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 3 works
  9. 9 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health General Health Professions 2 works
  10. 10 COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Economics and Econometrics 2 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 available76.4%not open23.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors28.5%domestic only71.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Nurses' Training College, Ho's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 213% 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 Nurses' Training College, Ho as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00097% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Nurses' Training College, Ho0.00090% in 202519801990200020102020

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