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Tostan

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Research works
8
▲ 143% vs 2018-21
Citations
74
9.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
11%
world 40%
International
11%
world 18%
Tostan

Not ranked overall: Tostan 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 Tostan work in?

In all years, 57% of research at Tostan is in Health Sciences, 41% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (56%), Social Sciences (32%), Arts and Humanities (9%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 4 fractional works · 56.8% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 55.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 22.0% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 13.2% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 13.2% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 4.3% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 40.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 32.1% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 13.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 8.8% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 4.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 8.8% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 8.8% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKTostan8fractional works, all years
Life Sciences2%Health Sciences57%Social Sciences41%

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 3 domains and 5 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine455.9%
    2. Health Professions00.9%
    1. Social Sciences232.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities18.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What are the most cited papers from Tostan?

The most cited paper from Tostan is "Changing Social Norms: the Importance of “Organized Diffusion” for Scaling Up Community Health Promotion and Women Empowerment Interventions" (Beniamino Cislaghi, Elaine K. Denny, Mady Cissé et al., 2019), with 127 citations. Next come "The Transformative Power of Democracy and Human Rights in Nonformal Education: The Case of Tostan" (94) and "On the CUSP: the politics and prospects of scaling social norms change programming" (36).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Changing Social Norms: the Importance of “Organized Diffusion” for Scaling Up Community Health Promotion and Women Empowerment Interventions Beniamino Cislaghi, Elaine K. Denny, Mady Cissé et al. · Prevention Science Open access 12 Feb 2019 127
2 The Transformative Power of Democracy and Human Rights in Nonformal Education: The Case of Tostan Diane Filby Gillespie, Molly Melching · Adult Education Quarterly 26 Mar 2010 94
3 On the CUSP: the politics and prospects of scaling social norms change programming Leah Goldmann, Rebecka Lundgren, Alice Welbourn et al. · Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Open access 29 Apr 2019 36
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Which research topics does Tostan publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues, Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies, Turkey's Politics and Society and Sexual function and dysfunction studies.

Female Genital Mutilatio…1Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues: 1 fractional worksCultural and Sociopoliti…1Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies: 1 fractional worksTurkey's Politics and So…1Turkey's Politics and Society: 1 fractional worksSexual function and dysf…0Sexual function and dysfunction studies: 0 fractional worksGenital Health and Disease: 0 fractional worksSexual Differentiation and Disorders: 0 fractional worksGenetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities: 0 fractional worksGynecological conditions and treatments: 0 fractional works
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMuseologyPolitical Science and International RelationsPsychiatry and Mental health4 others

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

  1. 1 Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  2. 2 Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies Museology 1 works
  3. 3 Turkey's Politics and Society Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  4. 4 Sexual function and dysfunction studies Psychiatry and Mental health 0 works
  5. 5 Genital Health and Disease Surgery 0 works
  6. 6 Sexual Differentiation and Disorders Molecular Biology 0 works
  7. 7 Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities Genetics 0 works
  8. 8 Gynecological conditions and treatments Obstetrics and Gynecology 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 available11.1%not open88.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.1%domestic only88.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Tostan's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 143% higher than in 2018-2021.

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