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Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre

In research, Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre stands highest in Health Sciences (#17,205 of 20,462 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#19,575
of 28,054 · #30,952 all time
Rank in Sierra Leone
#3
of 5
Research works
295
▲ 101% vs 2013–17
Citations
3.6k
12.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
21.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
74%
world 28%

What is Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #17,205 of 20,462 20.3%130

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

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: 0.48× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.32× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringComputer Science: 0.41× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.24× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.00× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 1.77× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.33× its world share, 9 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.85× its world share, 38 worksMedicineNursing: 5.98× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.01× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.45× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.93× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.91× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.27× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.56× its world share, 21 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 6.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Community Health Workers, Maternal Mortality, Vaccine, Health Inequalities, Child Mortality, Health Systems and Pathogenesis.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Epidemiology12▲ 2.8×41 topics
  2. Community Health Workers7▲ 76×2 topics
  3. Maternal Mortality7▲ 29×5 topics
  4. Vaccine6▲ 15×8 topics
  5. Health Inequalities6▲ 50×2 topics
  6. Child Mortality6▲ 83×1 topic
  7. Health Systems6▲ 83×1 topic
  8. Pathogenesis6▲ 11×7 topics
  9. Public Health6▲ 4.0×20 topics
  10. Immune Response6▲ 9.7×6 topics
  11. Globalization5▲ 2.5×15 topics
  12. Ebola Virus5▲ 171×1 topic
  13. Infectious Diseases5▲ 14×5 topics
  14. Outbreak5▲ 128×1 topic
  15. COVID-195▲ 3.3×14 topics
  16. Mental Health5▲ 3.0×15 topics
  17. Global Burden of Disease4▲ 14×3 topics
  18. Risk Factors3▲ 2.9×12 topics
  19. Child Development3▲ 7.5×5 topics
  20. Economic Growth3▲ 3.6×10 topics
  21. Ethical Considerations3▲ 8.4×4 topics
  22. Education Policy3▲ 41×3 topics
  23. Poverty Reduction3▲ 20×4 topics
  24. Maternal and Child Undernutrition3▲ 31×1 topic
  25. Water Sanitation Hygiene3▲ 31×1 topic
  26. Mortality2▲ 4.1×8 topics
  27. Global Health2▲ 15×4 topics
  28. Health Outcomes2▲ 8.3×4 topics
  29. Neoliberalism2▲ 6.0×5 topics
  30. Modeling2▲ 8.2×1 topic
  31. transmission dynamics2▲ 29×1 topic
  32. Gender Inequality2▲ 15×3 topics
  33. Healthcare Workers2▲ 8.2×4 topics
  34. Medical Education2▲ 7.3×4 topics
  35. Risk Perception2▲ 7.1×3 topics
  36. Chronic Disease2▲ 10×3 topics
  37. Conditional Cash Transfers2▲ 48×1 topic
  38. School Subsidies2▲ 48×1 topic
  39. Vaccine Development2▲ 7.2×4 topics
  40. Public-Private Partnerships2▲ 24×3 topics

Which research topics does Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Global Maternal and Child Health, Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research, Child Nutrition and Water Access and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

Global Maternal and Chil…6Global Maternal and Child Health: 6 fractional worksViral Infections and Outbreaks Research: 5 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Water Access: 3 fractional worksCOVID-19 epidemiological studies: 2 fractional worksPoverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 2 fractional worksData-Driven Disease Surveillance: 2 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 2 fractional worksGlobal Health and Surgery: 2 fractional worksGlobal Educational Policies and Reforms: 2 fractional worksAdolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: 1 fractional works
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthInfectious DiseasesNutrition and DieteticsModeling and Simulation6 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 6 works
  2. 2 Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research Infectious Diseases 5 works
  3. 3 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 3 works
  4. 4 COVID-19 epidemiological studies Modeling and Simulation 2 works
  5. 5 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 2 works
  6. 6 Data-Driven Disease Surveillance Epidemiology 2 works
  7. 7 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 2 works
  8. 8 Global Health and Surgery Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works
  9. 9 Global Educational Policies and Reforms Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  10. 10 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health General Health Professions 1 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 available73.8%not open26.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors58.3%domestic only41.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 101% 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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