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Université de Fianarantsoa

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World rank, 2022-now
#13,415
of 22,385 · #22,827 all time
Rank in Madagascar
#2
of 7
Research works
327
▲ 85% vs 2018-21
Citations
848
2.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.88×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
77%
world 40%
International
25%
world 18%
Université de Fianarantsoa

Which fields of science does Université de Fianarantsoa work in?

In 2022-now, 36% of research at Université de Fianarantsoa is in Health Sciences, 32% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (33%), Computer Science (14%), Social Sciences (13%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 54 fractional works · 36.3% of its workMedicine: 49 fractional works · 33.2% of its workSurgery: 9 fractional works · 5.9% of its workEpidemiology: 6 fractional works · 4.1% of its workInfectious Diseases: 5 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOphthalmology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHepatology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysical Sciences: 47 fractional works · 31.8% of its workComputer Science: 21 fractional works · 14.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 8 fractional works · 5.6% of its workInformation Systems: 5 fractional works · 3.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 11 fractional works · 7.3% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 4.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 6 fractional works · 4.1% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workTheoretical Computer Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 30 fractional works · 20.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 19 fractional works · 12.8% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLinguistics and Language: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopment: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 18 fractional works · 11.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 9 fractional works · 6.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 4 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHorticulture: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workParasitology: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKUniversité deFianarantsoa149fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences32%Health Sciences36%Social Sciences20%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine4933.2%
    2. Health Professions32.3%
    3. Nursing10.9%
    1. Computer Science2114.0%
    2. Environmental Science117.3%
    3. Engineering74.7%
    4. Mathematics64.1%
    5. Materials Science10.6%
    6. Physics and Astronomy10.4%
    7. Energy00.3%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.3%
    9. Chemistry00.2%
    1. Social Sciences1912.8%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance42.8%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting31.8%
    4. Decision Sciences21.2%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.9%
    6. Psychology10.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences96.3%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology42.4%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology32.0%
    4. Neuroscience21.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
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: 1.33× its world share, 9 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.37× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.41× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.64× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.80× its world share, 21 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.31× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.47× its world share, 11 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 3.44× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.87× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.72× its world share, 49 worksMedicineNursing: 1.76× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.56× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.23× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.31× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.01× its world share, 19 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Mathematics, 3.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Mathematics3.44×6 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology2.41×4 works
  3. Computer Science1.80×21 works
  4. Nursing1.76×1 works
  5. Medicine1.72×49 works
  6. Environmental Science1.47×11 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.33×9 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.31×4 works
  9. Decision Sciences1.23×2 works
  10. Social Sciences1.01×19 works
  11. Health Professions0.87×3 works
  12. Neuroscience0.64×2 works
  13. Business, Management and Accounting0.56×3 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.37×3 works
  15. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.32×0 works
  16. Energy0.32×0 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.32×1 works
  18. Engineering0.31×7 works
  19. Psychology0.19×1 works
  20. Physics and Astronomy0.18×1 works
  21. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.17×0 works
  22. Materials Science0.17×1 works
  23. Chemistry0.14×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Université de Fianarantsoa?

Ranked on the quality score, Patrick Rakotomarolahy, Mahefa Abel Razafinirina and Philibert Andriamanantena lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Université de Fianarantsoa.

  1. 1 Patrick Rakotomarolahy Madagascar · #2,225,670 worldwide 69 citations · 19 works
  2. 2 Mahefa Abel Razafinirina Madagascar · #2,747,001 worldwide 32 citations · 19 works
  3. 3 Philibert Andriamanantena Madagascar · #3,269,287 worldwide 1 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Rindra Nadia Razafinirina Madagascar · #3,500,598 worldwide 0 citations · 16 works
  5. 5 Elysa Marie Alfredine RAZAFINDRAFARA Madagascar · #3,609,964 worldwide 0 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Faly Tinasoa Andrianandrasanirina Madagascar · #3,985,757 worldwide 0 citations · 17 works
  7. 7 Thomas Mahatody Madagascar · #4,031,660 worldwide 497 citations · 67 works
  8. 8 Rivo Rakotozafy Madagascar · #4,450,657 worldwide 47 citations · 23 works
  9. 9 Jocia Fenomanana Madagascar · #4,518,960 worldwide 33 citations · 34 works
  10. 10 Behoavy Mahafaly Ralaizanaka Madagascar · #4,707,700 worldwide 34 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Université de Fianarantsoa

What are the most cited papers from Université de Fianarantsoa?

The most cited paper from Université de Fianarantsoa is "Potential of Jatropha curcas as a source of renewable oil and animal feed" (Andrew J. King, Wei He, Jesús A. Cuevas et al., 2009), with 295 citations. Next come "Bats as potential suppressors of multiple agricultural pests: A case study from Madagascar" (142) and "The global abundance of tree palms" (130).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Potential of Jatropha curcas as a source of renewable oil and animal feed Andrew J. King, Wei He, Jesús A. Cuevas et al. · Journal of Experimental Botany Open access 13 Feb 2009 295
2 Bats as potential suppressors of multiple agricultural pests: A case study from Madagascar James S. Kemp, Adrià López‐Baucells, Ricardo Rocha et al. · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment Open access Oct 2018 142
3 The global abundance of tree palms Robert Muscarella et al. · Global Ecology and Biogeography Open access223 authors 8 Jul 2020 130
4 Variation in SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks across sub-Saharan Africa Benjamin L. Rice, Akshaya V. Annapragada, Rachel E. Baker et al. · Nature Medicine Open access 2 Feb 2021 110
5 Application of phase change materials, thermal insulation, and external shading for thermal comfort improvement and cooling energy demand reduction in an office building under different coastal tropical climates Modeste Kameni Nematchoua, Jean Christophe Vanona Noelson, Ismail Ait Saadi et al. · Solar Energy 10 Jul 2020 87
All 62 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Université de Fianarantsoa?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Global Burden, Smallholder Farmers, Adaptation, Diagnosis, Antiretroviral Therapy, Neural Networks and Distributed Systems.

▲ 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. Epidemiology16▲ 2.7×46 topics
  2. Deep Learning7▲ 1.32×14 topics
  3. Climate Change7▲ 1.65×16 topics
  4. Machine Learning6◆ 1.13×12 topics
  5. Neural Networks6▲ 2.4×5 topics
  6. Diagnosis5▲ 3.6×17 topics
  7. Sustainability5▲ 1.37×10 topics
  8. Treatment5▲ 2.7×15 topics
  9. Risk Factors5▲ 2.9×10 topics
  10. Remote Sensing5▲ 2.5×10 topics
  11. Global Burden4▲ 5.4×9 topics
  12. Immune Response4▲ 4.3×8 topics
  13. Adaptation4▲ 7.8×4 topics
  14. Smallholder Farmers4▲ 11×3 topics
  15. Surgical Management3▲ 5.5×10 topics
  16. Antiretroviral Therapy3▲ 13×5 topics
  17. Drug Resistance3▲ 7.4×5 topics
  18. Genetic Diversity3▲ 5.0×8 topics
  19. Distributed Systems3▲ 12×3 topics
  20. Poverty Reduction3▲ 15×4 topics
  21. Diversity3▲ 11×3 topics
  22. Resource Management3▲ 11×2 topics
  23. Cancer Incidence3▲ 13×3 topics
  24. Helminth Infections3▲ 42×2 topics
  25. Livestock Farming2▲ 28×2 topics
  26. Agricultural Development2▲ 10×1 topic
  27. Disease Burden2▲ 21×2 topics
  28. Information Retrieval2▲ 7.2×2 topics
  29. Work Organization2▲ 41×1 topic
  30. Image Captioning2▲ 27×1 topic
  31. Mathematics Education2▲ 31×2 topics
  32. Schistosomiasis2▲ 52×1 topic
  33. Soil-Transmitted Helminths2▲ 52×1 topic
  34. Visual Question Answering2▲ 17×1 topic
  35. Principal Component Analysis2▲ 11×2 topics
  36. Human Papillomavirus2▲ 11×3 topics
  37. Ethnic Diversity2▲ 20×3 topics
  38. Mortality Rates2▲ 14×2 topics
  39. Mycobacterium tuberculosis2▲ 23×1 topic
  40. Tuberculosis2▲ 24×1 topic

Which research topics does Université de Fianarantsoa publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, Agriculture and Rural Development Research, Parasites and Host Interactions and Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology.

Multimodal Machine Learn…2Multimodal Machine Learning Applications: 2 fractional worksAgriculture and Rural De…2Agriculture and Rural Development Research: 2 fractional worksParasites and Host Interactions: 2 fractional worksTuberculosis Research an…2Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 2 fractional worksWater Quality and Pollut…2Water Quality and Pollution Assessment: 2 fractional worksTopic Modeling2Topic Modeling: 2 fractional worksCervical Cancer and HPV Research: 2 fractional worksInternational Developmen…2International Development and Aid: 2 fractional worksCloud Computing and Resource Management: 1 fractional worksDistributed and Parallel Computing Systems: 1 fractional works
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsParasitologyInfectious Diseases6 others

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

  1. 1 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2 works
  2. 2 Agriculture and Rural Development Research Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2 works
  3. 3 Parasites and Host Interactions Parasitology 2 works
  4. 4 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 2 works
  5. 5 Water Quality and Pollution Assessment Water Science and Technology 2 works
  6. 6 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  7. 7 Cervical Cancer and HPV Research Epidemiology 2 works
  8. 8 International Development and Aid Development 2 works
  9. 9 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 1 works
  10. 10 Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Computer Networks and Communications 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 available76.9%not open23.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.1%domestic only74.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Université de Fianarantsoa's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 85% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Université de Fianarantsoa as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00042% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%Université de Fianarantsoa0.00059% in 202519801990200020102020

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