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Plan International Tanzania

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Research works
17
▼ 17% vs 2018-21
Citations
370
21.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
78%
world 40%
International
85%
world 18%
Plan International Tanzania

Not ranked overall: Plan International Tanzania 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 Plan International Tanzania work in?

In all years, 62% of research at Plan International Tanzania is in Health Sciences, 20% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (55%), Immunology and Microbiology (10%), Social Sciences (9%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 11 fractional works · 61.7% of its workMedicine: 9 fractional works · 54.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 24.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 9.4% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 9.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 20.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 10.4% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.2% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 11.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 9.2% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workALL ITS WORKPlanInternational…17fractional works, all years
Life Sciences20%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences62%Social Sciences12%

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 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine954.8%
    2. Health Professions15.9%
    3. Nursing01.0%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology210.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences17.2%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.5%
    1. Social Sciences29.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance02.0%
    3. Psychology00.8%
    1. Environmental Science14.0%
    2. Computer Science01.5%
    3. Mathematics00.9%
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: 2.32× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.60× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEnvironmental Science: 1.08× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 2.85× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.14× its world share, 2 worksMedicineEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.04× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.56× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 4.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 10 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology4.60×0 works
  2. Health Professions2.85×0 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.32×0 works
  4. Medicine2.14×2 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.04×0 works
  6. Social Sciences1.56×1 works
  7. Environmental Science1.08×0 works
  8. Psychology0.55×0 works
  9. Computer Science0.43×0 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.21×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Plan International Tanzania?

The most cited paper from Plan International Tanzania is "Insecticide resistance mechanisms associated with different environments in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae: a case study in Tanzania" (Theresia Estomih Nkya, Idir Akhouayri, Rodolphe Poupardin et al., 2014), with 218 citations. Next come "Mass Screening and Treatment on the Basis of Results of a Plasmodium falciparum-Specific Rapid Diagnostic Test Did Not Reduce Malaria Incidence in Zanzibar" (141) and "Impact of agriculture on the selection of insecticide resistance in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae: a multigenerational study in controlled conditions" (138).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Insecticide resistance mechanisms associated with different environments in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae: a case study in Tanzania Theresia Estomih Nkya, Idir Akhouayri, Rodolphe Poupardin et al. · Malaria Journal Open access 25 Jan 2014 218
2 Mass Screening and Treatment on the Basis of Results of a Plasmodium falciparum-Specific Rapid Diagnostic Test Did Not Reduce Malaria Incidence in Zanzibar Jackie A Cook, Weiping Xu, Mwinyi I. Msellem et al. · The Journal of Infectious Diseases Open access 26 Nov 2014 141
3 Impact of agriculture on the selection of insecticide resistance in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae: a multigenerational study in controlled conditions Theresia Estomih Nkya, Rodolphe Poupardin, Frédéric Laporte et al. · Parasites & Vectors Open access 15 Oct 2014 138
4 The impact of antimalarial resistance on the genetic structure of Plasmodium falciparum in the DRC Robert Verity et al. · Nature Communications Open access 30 Apr 2020 123
5 Multiple insecticide resistance in Anopheles gambiae from Tanzania: a major concern for malaria vector control William Nhandi Kisinza, Theresia Estomih Nkya, Bilali I. Kabula et al. · Malaria Journal Open access 30 Oct 2017 105
All 90 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Plan International Tanzania publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Malaria Research and Control, Global Maternal and Child Health, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Agricultural Innovations and Practices.

Malaria Research and Control: 1 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 0 fractional worksAdolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: 0 fractional worksAgricultural Innovations and Practices: 0 fractional worksSoil and Land Suitability Analysis: 0 fractional worksMosquito-borne diseases and control: 0 fractional worksPoverty, Education, and …0Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 0 fractional worksTeacher Education and Leadership Studies: 0 fractional worksMedical and Agricultural Research Studies: 0 fractional worksEconomic Growth and Development: 0 fractional works
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthGeneral Health ProfessionsGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences5 others

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

  1. 1 Malaria Research and Control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  2. 2 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 0 works
  3. 3 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health General Health Professions 0 works
  4. 4 Agricultural Innovations and Practices General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0 works
  5. 5 Soil and Land Suitability Analysis Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  6. 6 Mosquito-borne diseases and control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  7. 7 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 0 works
  8. 8 Teacher Education and Leadership Studies Education 0 works
  9. 9 Medical and Agricultural Research Studies Development 0 works
  10. 10 Economic Growth and Development Information Systems 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 available78.4%not open21.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors85.2%domestic only14.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Plan International Tanzania's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Plan International Tanzania as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000013% in 2024.

still counting0.000025%0.000050%0.000075%Plan International Tanzania0.000016% in 202520102020

Fractional works of Plan International Tanzania over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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