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The Catholic University of Malawi

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Research works
56
▲ 314% vs 2013–17
Citations
247
4.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
67%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: The Catholic University of Malawi 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: 3.57× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.87× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 3.83× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.74× its world share, 8 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceHealth Professions: 0.60× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 2.54× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.96× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.97× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.22× its world share, 9 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 4.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at The Catholic University of Malawi?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Gender Inequality, Social Networks, Rural Development, Biodiversity Conservation, Renewable Energy, Vulnerability, Climate Change and 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 2022–2025 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. Climate Change3▲ 3.9×11 topics
  2. Gender Inequality3▲ 77×4 topics
  3. Social Networks3▲ 37×3 topics
  4. Rural Development3▲ 27×4 topics
  5. Renewable Energy3▲ 6.5×2 topics
  6. Biodiversity Conservation3▲ 24×3 topics
  7. Vulnerability2▲ 35×3 topics
  8. Development2▲ 21×4 topics
  9. Smallholder Farmers2▲ 33×2 topics
  10. Sustainable Agriculture2▲ 23×2 topics
  11. Poverty Reduction2▲ 51×2 topics
  12. Land Use Change2▲ 21×3 topics
  13. Agricultural Innovation2▲ 141×1 topic
  14. Household Fuel Use2▲ 85×1 topic
  15. Indoor Air Pollution2▲ 85×1 topic
  16. Livelihood Diversification2▲ 208×1 topic
  17. Sustainability2▲ 2.5×6 topics
  18. Environmental Services2▲ 175×1 topic
  19. Tropical Deforestation2▲ 175×1 topic
  20. Conditional Cash Transfers2▲ 154×1 topic
  21. Environmental Impact2▲ 3.4×3 topics
  22. School Subsidies2▲ 154×1 topic
  23. Social Capital2▲ 10×2 topics
  24. Sustainable Development2▲ 3.2×4 topics
  25. Agriculture1▲ 10×2 topics
  26. Food Security1▲ 7.4×2 topics
  27. Resilience1▲ 8.4×2 topics
  28. Community1▲ 33×1 topic
  29. Disaster1▲ 78×1 topic
  30. Poverty1▲ 40×2 topics
  31. Information Technology1▲ 7.2×2 topics
  32. Insurance1▲ 44×1 topic
  33. Risk Management1▲ 7.1×1 topic
  34. Electrolysis1▲ 49×1 topic
  35. Hydrogen1▲ 38×1 topic
  36. NGOs1▲ 32×2 topics
  37. Nigeria1▲ 177×1 topic
  38. Youth Unemployment1▲ 334×1 topic
  39. medical waste1▲ 106×1 topic
  40. solid waste management1▲ 106×1 topic

Which research topics does The Catholic University of Malawi publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Energy and Environment Impacts, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare.

Agricultural Innovations…2Agricultural Innovations and Practices: 2 fractional worksEnergy and Environment I…2Energy and Environment Impacts: 2 fractional worksConservation, Biodiversi…2Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management: 2 fractional worksPoverty, Education, and …2Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 2 fractional worksDisaster Management and Resilience: 1 fractional worksAgricultural risk and resilience: 1 fractional worksAfrican Education and Po…1African Education and Politics: 1 fractional worksHybrid Renewable Energy Systems: 1 fractional worksHealthcare and Environmental Waste Management: 1 fractional worksLand Rights and Reforms1Land Rights and Reforms: 1 fractional works
General Agricultural and Biological SciencesPollutionGlobal and Planetary ChangeSafety Research5 others

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

  1. 1 Agricultural Innovations and Practices General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 works
  2. 2 Energy and Environment Impacts Pollution 2 works
  3. 3 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  4. 4 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 2 works
  5. 5 Disaster Management and Resilience Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  6. 6 Agricultural risk and resilience Soil Science 1 works
  7. 7 African Education and Politics Education 1 works
  8. 8 Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems Energy Engineering and Power Technology 1 works
  9. 9 Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  10. 10 Land Rights and Reforms Soil Science 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 available67.4%not open32.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors32.9%domestic only67.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has The Catholic University of Malawi's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 314% higher than in 2013–2017.

201020152020
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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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