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Uganda Management Institute

In research, Uganda Management Institute stands highest in Social Sciences (#6,427 of 9,585 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#4,832 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#10,196
of 22,385 · #14,541 all time
Rank in Uganda
#15
of 32
Research works
393
▲ 43% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.3k
5.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.00×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
65%
world 40%
International
28%
world 18%
Uganda Management Institute

What is Uganda Management Institute known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #6,427 of 9,585 4.1%114 #9791
Social SciencesField #4,832 of 5,988 5.1%65 #6971

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Uganda Management Institute 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Uganda Management Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 64% of research at Uganda Management Institute is in Social Sciences, 23% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (35%), Medicine (19%), Business, Management and Accounting (17%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 126 fractional works · 64.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 69 fractional works · 35.2% of its workEducation: 21 fractional works · 10.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 15 fractional works · 7.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 14 fractional works · 7.3% of its workSafety Research: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workDevelopment: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workLaw: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPublic Administration: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 33 fractional works · 16.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 14 fractional works · 7.1% of its workAccounting: 7 fractional works · 3.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 6 fractional works · 2.8% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 3.3% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 8 fractional works · 3.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 5 fractional works · 2.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 45 fractional works · 23.2% of its workMedicine: 38 fractional works · 19.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 fractional works · 4.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 5 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEpidemiology: 5 fractional works · 2.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 17 fractional works · 8.8% of its workComputer Science: 7 fractional works · 3.4% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 2.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 3.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKUganda ManagementInstitute196fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences23%Social Sciences64%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences6935.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting3316.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance84.1%
    4. Psychology84.0%
    5. Decision Sciences83.9%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.4%
    1. Medicine3819.2%
    2. Health Professions62.8%
    3. Nursing20.8%
    4. Dentistry10.3%
    1. Computer Science73.4%
    2. Engineering52.6%
    3. Environmental Science31.7%
    4. Mathematics21.0%
    5. Energy00.1%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    7. Chemistry00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences31.6%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology20.9%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.8%
    4. Neuroscience00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
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: 0.34× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.91× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.44× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.17× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.34× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.83× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.68× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.07× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.00× its world share, 38 worksMedicineNursing: 1.72× its world share, 2 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5.22× its world share, 33 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.05× its world share, 8 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.94× its world share, 8 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.31× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.79× its world share, 69 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 5.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting5.22×33 works
  2. Decision Sciences4.05×8 works
  3. Social Sciences2.79×69 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.94×8 works
  5. Nursing1.72×2 works
  6. Psychology1.31×8 works
  7. Health Professions1.07×6 works
  8. Medicine1.00×38 works
  9. Immunology and Microbiology0.91×2 works
  10. Mathematics0.83×2 works
  11. Dentistry0.68×1 works
  12. Computer Science0.44×7 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.34×3 works
  14. Environmental Science0.34×3 works
  15. Engineering0.17×5 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.15×2 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.13×1 works
  18. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.12×0 works
  19. Energy0.09×0 works
  20. Neuroscience0.06×0 works
  21. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.04×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Uganda Management Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Wilberforce Turyasingura, Lazarus Nabaho and Robert Agwot Komakech lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Uganda Management Institute.

  1. 1 Wilberforce Turyasingura Uganda · #2,174,787 worldwide 98 citations · 23 works
  2. 2 Lazarus Nabaho Uganda · #2,405,176 worldwide 147 citations · 31 works
  3. 3 Robert Agwot Komakech Uganda · #2,516,541 worldwide 150 citations · 27 works
  4. 4 Pius Gumisiriza Uganda · #2,528,232 worldwide 57 citations · 31 works
  5. 5 Oluka Pross Nagitta Uganda · #2,530,819 worldwide 297 citations · 29 works
  6. 6 David Ssekamatte Uganda · #2,768,988 worldwide 81 citations · 44 works
  7. 7 Paddy Mugambe Uganda · #3,024,951 worldwide 93 citations · 15 works
  8. 8 Peter Adoko Obicci Uganda · #3,294,660 worldwide 168 citations · 33 works
  9. 9 Mary Basaasa Muhenda Uganda · #3,323,257 worldwide 22 citations · 17 works
  10. 10 Maria Kaguhangire-Barifaijo Uganda · #3,434,160 worldwide 24 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Uganda Management Institute

What are the most cited papers from Uganda Management Institute?

The most cited paper from Uganda Management Institute is "Characteristics, complications, and gaps in evidence-based interventions in rheumatic heart disease: the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry (the REMEDY study)" (Liesl Joanna Zuhlke et al., 2014), with 599 citations. Next come "Structure and composition of benthic macroinvertebrates of a tropical forest stream, River Nyamweru, western Uganda" (320) and "Cardiovascular diseases in Africa in the twenty-first century: Gaps and priorities going forward" (177).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Characteristics, complications, and gaps in evidence-based interventions in rheumatic heart disease: the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry (the REMEDY study) Liesl Joanna Zuhlke et al. · European Heart Journal Open access 25 Nov 2014 599
2 Structure and composition of benthic macroinvertebrates of a tropical forest stream, River Nyamweru, western Uganda Charles Tumwesigye, S. Kizito Yusuf, Boniface Makanga · African Journal of Ecology Mar 2000 320
3 Cardiovascular diseases in Africa in the twenty-first century: Gaps and priorities going forward Neema W. Minja, Doreen Nakagaayi, Twalib Olega Aliku et al. · Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine Open access 10 Nov 2022 177
4 Cardiovascular Complications of Down Syndrome: Scoping Review and Expert Consensus Konstantinos Dimopoulos et al. · Circulation Open access 30 Jan 2023 136
5 2023 World Heart Federation guidelines for the echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease Joselyn Rwebembera et al. · Nature Reviews Cardiology ReviewOpen access 2 Nov 2023 134
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Uganda Management Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Economic Growth, Governance, Higher Education, Political Economy, Poverty Reduction, Neoliberalism, Globalization and Internationalization.

▲ 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-now 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. Economic Growth14▲ 9.1×10 topics
  2. Governance13▲ 20×7 topics
  3. Higher Education12▲ 12×11 topics
  4. Globalization12▲ 3.0×16 topics
  5. Epidemiology11▲ 1.37×40 topics
  6. Political Economy10▲ 21×5 topics
  7. Poverty Reduction9▲ 36×4 topics
  8. Sustainability8▲ 1.79×19 topics
  9. Neoliberalism7▲ 10×3 topics
  10. Innovation7▲ 3.4×10 topics
  11. Online Learning7▲ 4.3×6 topics
  12. Internationalization7▲ 57×2 topics
  13. Quality Assurance7▲ 20×3 topics
  14. Social Capital7▲ 6.5×6 topics
  15. Supply Chain Management7▲ 3.8×8 topics
  16. Development6▲ 9.1×7 topics
  17. Leadership6▲ 6.7×8 topics
  18. Marketization6▲ 73×2 topics
  19. Academic Identity6▲ 102×1 topic
  20. Organizational Culture6▲ 7.7×4 topics
  21. University Rankings6▲ 102×1 topic
  22. Regulation6▲ 5.5×5 topics
  23. Corporate Governance5▲ 3.7×9 topics
  24. Lifelong Learning5▲ 13×4 topics
  25. Public Sector5▲ 61×3 topics
  26. Corruption5▲ 17×3 topics
  27. Democracy5▲ 7.5×3 topics
  28. Institutions5▲ 32×2 topics
  29. Risk Management5▲ 5.1×6 topics
  30. Public-Private Partnerships5▲ 32×2 topics
  31. Student Satisfaction4▲ 12×2 topics
  32. Environmental Management4▲ 5.4×4 topics
  33. Bribery4▲ 97×1 topic
  34. Cross-National Study4▲ 97×1 topic
  35. Fiscal Decentralization4▲ 21×1 topic
  36. Local Public Goods4▲ 152×1 topic
  37. Antiretroviral Therapy4▲ 12×5 topics
  38. Employee Engagement4▲ 11×4 topics
  39. NGOs4▲ 21×2 topics
  40. Performance Measurement4▲ 7.2×4 topics

Which research topics does Uganda Management Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Higher Education Governance and Development, Local Government Finance and Decentralization, Corruption and Economic Development and Public-Private Partnership Projects.

Higher Education Governa…6Higher Education Governance and Development: 6 fractional worksLocal Government Finance…4Local Government Finance and Decentralization: 4 fractional worksCorruption and Economic Development: 4 fractional worksPublic-Private Partnership Projects: 4 fractional worksMicrofinance and Financial Inclusion: 3 fractional worksStreptococcal Infections and Treatments: 3 fractional worksPublic Procurement and Policy: 3 fractional worksInternational Developmen…3International Development and Aid: 3 fractional worksOnline and Blended Learning: 3 fractional worksHigher Education Learning Practices: 3 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsSociology and Political ScienceStrategy and ManagementEconomics and Econometrics3 others

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

  1. 1 Higher Education Governance and Development Political Science and International Relations 6 works
  2. 2 Local Government Finance and Decentralization Political Science and International Relations 4 works
  3. 3 Corruption and Economic Development Sociology and Political Science 4 works
  4. 4 Public-Private Partnership Projects Strategy and Management 4 works
  5. 5 Microfinance and Financial Inclusion Economics and Econometrics 3 works
  6. 6 Streptococcal Infections and Treatments Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  7. 7 Public Procurement and Policy Strategy and Management 3 works
  8. 8 International Development and Aid Development 3 works
  9. 9 Online and Blended Learning Education 3 works
  10. 10 Higher Education Learning Practices Education 3 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 available64.9%not open35.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors27.8%domestic only72.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Uganda Management Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 43% higher 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 Uganda Management Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0011% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Uganda Management Institute0.00061% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Uganda Management Institute over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Uganda Management Institute6.5% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 7.9% in 2018.

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