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Open University of West Africa

ROR OpenAlex
Research works
24
▲ 209% vs 2013–17
Citations
165
6.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
26.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
71%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Open University of West Africa is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Neuroscience: 1.56× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.30× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceHealth Professions: 1.92× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.79× its world share, 1 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 1.75× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.62× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 5.24× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 3.70× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 5.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Open University of West Africa?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Corporate Governance, Community Health Workers, Leadership, Maternal Mortality, Child Development, Digital Technology, Finance and Parental Mediation.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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 17 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Corporate Governance2▲ 15×5 topics
  2. Community Health Workers2▲ 98×2 topics
  3. Leadership2▲ 19×2 topics
  4. Public Health2▲ 4.8×7 topics
  5. Maternal Mortality2▲ 34×2 topics
  6. Child Development1▲ 21×2 topics
  7. Digital Technology1▲ 88×1 topic
  8. Finance1▲ 42×2 topics
  9. Parental Mediation1▲ 161×1 topic
  10. Qualitative Research1▲ 9.6×1 topic
  11. Research Methods1▲ 44×1 topic
  12. Child Mortality1▲ 86×1 topic
  13. Epidemiology1▲ 1.25×7 topics
  14. Health Systems1▲ 86×1 topic
  15. Risk Management1▲ 14×2 topics
  16. Ethical Identity1▲ 66×1 topic
  17. Islamic Banking1▲ 24×1 topic

Which research topics does Open University of West Africa publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Child Development and Digital Technology, Urban and Rural Development Challenges, Marriage and Sexual Relationships and Digital literacy in education.

Child Development and Di…1Child Development and Digital Technology: 1 fractional worksUrban and Rural Developm…0Urban and Rural Development Challenges: 0 fractional worksMarriage and Sexual Rela…0Marriage and Sexual Relationships: 0 fractional worksDigital literacy in education: 0 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 0 fractional worksMobile Learning in Educa…0Mobile Learning in Education: 0 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 0 fractional worksCultural and Social Studies in Latin America: 0 fractional worksEthics in Business and Education: 0 fractional worksIslamic Finance and Banking Studies: 0 fractional works
EducationUrban StudiesSociology and Political ScienceInformation Systems5 others

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

  1. 1 Child Development and Digital Technology Education 1 works
  2. 2 Urban and Rural Development Challenges Urban Studies 0 works
  3. 3 Marriage and Sexual Relationships Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  4. 4 Digital literacy in education Information Systems 0 works
  5. 5 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 0 works
  6. 6 Mobile Learning in Education Information Systems 0 works
  7. 7 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 0 works
  8. 8 Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
  9. 9 Ethics in Business and Education Information Systems and Management 0 works
  10. 10 Islamic Finance and Banking Studies Accounting 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 available71.2%not open28.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors39.0%domestic only61.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Open University of West Africa's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 209% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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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