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Université Amadou Hampaté Ba

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Research works
93
▲ 205% vs 2018-21
Citations
242
2.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
69%
world 40%
International
32%
world 18%
Université Amadou Hampaté Ba

Not ranked overall: Université Amadou Hampaté Ba is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Université Amadou Hampaté Ba work in?

In 2022-now, 59% of research at Université Amadou Hampaté Ba is in Physical Sciences, 23% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (20%), Engineering (13%), Environmental Science (13%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 38 fractional works · 59.3% of its workEngineering: 8 fractional works · 13.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 8 fractional works · 12.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 7 fractional works · 11.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 3.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 fractional works · 8.8% of its workGeophysics: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 6.8% of its workNumerical Analysis: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeometry and Topology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMathematical Physics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 14 fractional works · 22.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 13 fractional works · 20.2% of its workPlant Science: 6 fractional works · 9.9% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 fractional works · 5.4% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 10.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLinguistics and Language: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 5 fractional works · 7.4% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 7.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKUniversité AmadouHampaté Ba63fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences23%Physical Sciences59%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences11%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering813.1%
    2. Environmental Science812.8%
    3. Computer Science711.2%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences68.8%
    5. Mathematics46.8%
    6. Chemistry23.7%
    7. Materials Science12.3%
    8. Energy00.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1320.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.5%
    3. Neuroscience00.7%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Social Sciences35.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance24.0%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting11.3%
    4. Psychology00.2%
    1. Medicine47.0%
    2. Nursing00.2%
    3. Health Professions00.2%
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: 4.26× its world share, 13 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 2.39× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.44× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.61× its world share, 6 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.57× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.87× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.58× its world share, 8 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.67× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 5.79× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.36× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.41× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.85× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.40× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Mathematics, 5.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Mathematics5.79×4 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences5.61×6 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.26×13 works
  4. Environmental Science2.58×8 works
  5. Chemistry2.39×2 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.85×2 works
  7. Computer Science1.44×7 works
  8. Engineering0.87×8 works
  9. Materials Science0.67×2 works
  10. Energy0.57×0 works
  11. Neuroscience0.43×0 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.41×1 works
  13. Nursing0.40×0 works
  14. Social Sciences0.40×3 works
  15. Medicine0.36×4 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.28×1 works
  17. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.25×0 works
  18. Immunology and Microbiology0.18×0 works
  19. Psychology0.08×0 works
  20. Health Professions0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Université Amadou Hampaté Ba?

Ranked on the quality score, Ibrahima Dia and Ibrahima Diabaté lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Université Amadou Hampaté Ba.

  1. 1 Ibrahima Dia Senegal · #3,804,605 worldwide 44 citations · 13 works
  2. 2 Ibrahima Diabaté Senegal · #4,741,921 worldwide 85 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at Université Amadou Hampaté Ba

What are the most cited papers from Université Amadou Hampaté Ba?

The most cited paper from Université Amadou Hampaté Ba is "Using a human resource management approach to support community health workers: experiences from five African countries" (Joanna Raven, Patricia Akweongo, Amuda Baba et al., 2015), with 78 citations. Next come "Deciphering host-parasitoid interactions and parasitism rates of crop pests using DNA metabarcoding" (76) and "Interannual variability of rainfall in the Guinean Coast region and its links with sea surface temperature changes over the twentieth century for the different seasons" (35).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Using a human resource management approach to support community health workers: experiences from five African countries Joanna Raven, Patricia Akweongo, Amuda Baba et al. · Human Resources for Health Open access 10 Jun 2015 78
2 Deciphering host-parasitoid interactions and parasitism rates of crop pests using DNA metabarcoding Ahmadou Sow, Thierry Brévault, Laure Benoit et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 6 Mar 2019 76
3 Interannual variability of rainfall in the Guinean Coast region and its links with sea surface temperature changes over the twentieth century for the different seasons Koffi Worou, Hugues Goosse, Thierry Fichefet et al. · Climate Dynamics Open access 23 May 2020 35
4 Review of Paleoproterozoic tectonics in the southern West African Craton: Insights from multi-disciplinary data integration Julien Perret, Mark Jessell, Quentin Masurel et al. · Precambrian Research Open access 22 Mar 2025 29
5 1,2,3-triazenes and 1,2,3-triazoles as antileishmanial, antitrypanosomal, and antiplasmodial agents Insa Seck, Ismaïla Ciss, Adama Diédhiou et al. · Medicinal Chemistry Research Open access 10 Dec 2022 26
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Which keywords describe research at Université Amadou Hampaté Ba?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Smallholder Farmers, Adaptation, Remote Sensing, Deep Learning, Sustainability, Agroecology and Agricultural 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-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. Climate Change9▲ 5.2×26 topics
  2. Deep Learning6▲ 2.6×17 topics
  3. Sustainability5▲ 3.1×12 topics
  4. Machine Learning4▲ 1.92×9 topics
  5. Remote Sensing4▲ 5.3×13 topics
  6. Smallholder Farmers4▲ 30×4 topics
  7. Adaptation4▲ 19×4 topics
  8. Agricultural Development3▲ 30×1 topic
  9. Agroecology3▲ 33×2 topics
  10. Livestock Farming3▲ 77×1 topic
  11. Convolutional Neural Networks2▲ 5.0×7 topics
  12. Global Warming2▲ 8.4×5 topics
  13. Environmental Impact2▲ 2.0×13 topics
  14. Environmental Monitoring2▲ 8.9×3 topics
  15. Wireless Sensor Networks2▲ 7.4×3 topics
  16. Genome Sequencing2▲ 20×4 topics
  17. Image Processing2▲ 7.3×3 topics
  18. Hyperspectral Imaging2▲ 10×3 topics
  19. Sustainable Agriculture2▲ 9.2×5 topics
  20. Biodiversity Conservation2▲ 7.1×4 topics
  21. Plant Disease Detection2▲ 25×1 topic
  22. Smart Farming2▲ 23×1 topic
  23. Optimization2▲ 5.5×3 topics
  24. Ecosystem Services1▲ 5.4×6 topics
  25. Numerical Methods1▲ 26×2 topics
  26. Ocean Circulation1▲ 15×2 topics
  27. Support Vector Machines1▲ 6.3×2 topics
  28. Computer Vision1▲ 6.7×3 topics
  29. Land Use Change1▲ 6.5×4 topics
  30. Soil Properties1▲ 11×4 topics
  31. Drought Tolerance1▲ 12×4 topics
  32. Global Carbon Budget1▲ 24×2 topics
  33. Pest Management1▲ 20×2 topics
  34. Sea-Level Rise1▲ 14×3 topics
  35. Agroforestry1▲ 24×1 topic
  36. Convection-Diffusion Problems1▲ 65×1 topic
  37. Fixed Point Theorems1▲ 113×1 topic
  38. Groundwater1▲ 17×3 topics
  39. Heterogeneous1▲ 44×1 topic
  40. Tree Domestication1▲ 71×1 topic

Which research topics does Université Amadou Hampaté Ba publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Agriculture and Rural Development Research, Smart Agriculture and AI, African Botany and Ecology Studies and Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering.

Agriculture and Rural De…3Agriculture and Rural Development Research: 3 fractional worksSmart Agriculture and AI: 2 fractional worksAfrican Botany and Ecology Studies: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering: 1 fractional worksFixed Point Theorems Analysis: 1 fractional worksDate Palm Research Studies: 1 fractional worksOptimization and Variati…1Optimization and Variational Analysis: 1 fractional worksDifferential Equations and Numerical Methods: 1 fractional worksGeochemistry and Geologic Mapping: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network …1Advanced Neural Network Applications: 1 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsPlant ScienceForestryComputational Theory and Mathematics4 others

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

  1. 1 Agriculture and Rural Development Research Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 3 works
  2. 2 Smart Agriculture and AI Plant Science 2 works
  3. 3 African Botany and Ecology Studies Forestry 1 works
  4. 4 Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering Computational Theory and Mathematics 1 works
  5. 5 Fixed Point Theorems Analysis Geometry and Topology 1 works
  6. 6 Date Palm Research Studies Plant Science 1 works
  7. 7 Optimization and Variational Analysis Computational Theory and Mathematics 1 works
  8. 8 Differential Equations and Numerical Methods Numerical Analysis 1 works
  9. 9 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  10. 10 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 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 available68.6%not open31.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors31.6%domestic only68.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Université Amadou Hampaté Ba's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 205% 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 Université Amadou Hampaté Ba as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00023% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Université Amadou Hampaté Ba0.00029% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Université Amadou Hampaté Ba over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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