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Valley View University

In research, Valley View University stands highest in Social Sciences (#4,038 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Business, Management and Accounting (Business, Management and Accounting is 7.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#10,890
of 22,385 · #16,725 all time
Rank in Ghana
#26
of 45
Research works
404
▲ 76% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.7k
4.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
75%
world 40%
International
19%
world 18%
Valley View University

What is Valley View University 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 #4,038 of 9,585 8.8%121 #6394

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Valley View University 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 Valley View University work in?

In 2022-now, 71% of research at Valley View University is in Social Sciences, 17% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (24%), Social Sciences (23%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (11%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 136 fractional works · 70.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 45 fractional works · 23.6% of its workAccounting: 15 fractional works · 7.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 10 fractional works · 5.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 8 fractional works · 4.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMarketing: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 44 fractional works · 22.8% of its workEducation: 15 fractional works · 7.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 12 fractional works · 6.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 21 fractional works · 11.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 20 fractional works · 10.1% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 10 fractional works · 5.4% of its workReligious studies: 6 fractional works · 3.1% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 7 fractional works · 3.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPhysical Sciences: 32 fractional works · 16.7% of its workComputer Science: 18 fractional works · 9.2% of its workInformation Systems: 11 fractional works · 5.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 6 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 22 fractional works · 11.2% of its workMedicine: 16 fractional works · 8.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPlant Science: 1 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 workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKValley ViewUniversity192fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences17%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences71%

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. Business, Management and Accounting4523.6%
    2. Social Sciences4422.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2111.1%
    4. Arts and Humanities105.4%
    5. Psychology84.0%
    6. Decision Sciences73.6%
    1. Computer Science189.2%
    2. Engineering63.0%
    3. Environmental Science42.2%
    4. Materials Science10.7%
    5. Energy10.7%
    6. Mathematics10.5%
    7. Chemistry00.3%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
    1. Medicine168.2%
    2. Health Professions52.6%
    3. Nursing00.2%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.5%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.2%
    4. Neuroscience00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Valley View University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Business, Management and Accounting takes 7.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Business, Management and AccountingField · 45.5 works7.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.19× its world share, 18 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.74× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.20× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.44× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.46× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.00× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.43× its world share, 16 worksMedicineNursing: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.87× its world share, 10 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7.33× its world share, 46 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.75× its world share, 7 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5.19× its world share, 21 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.31× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.80× its world share, 44 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 7.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting7.33×46 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance5.19×21 works
  3. Decision Sciences3.75×7 works
  4. Arts and Humanities1.87×10 works
  5. Social Sciences1.80×44 works
  6. Psychology1.31×8 works
  7. Computer Science1.19×18 works
  8. Health Professions1.00×5 works
  9. Energy0.74×1 works
  10. Nursing0.47×0 works
  11. Mathematics0.46×1 works
  12. Environmental Science0.44×4 works
  13. Medicine0.43×16 works
  14. Engineering0.20×6 works
  15. Materials Science0.20×1 works
  16. Immunology and Microbiology0.17×0 works
  17. Chemistry0.17×0 works
  18. Dentistry0.14×0 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.13×1 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.11×1 works
  21. Neuroscience0.11×0 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Valley View University?

Ranked on the quality score, Awube Menlah, Evans Appiah Osei and Ninon P. Amertil lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Valley View University.

  1. 1 Awube Menlah Ghana · #775,305 worldwide 535 citations · 30 works
  2. 2 Evans Appiah Osei Ghana · #1,193,877 worldwide 468 citations · 58 works
  3. 3 Ninon P. Amertil Ghana · #1,610,873 worldwide 305 citations · 19 works
  4. 4 Evans O. N. D. Ocansey Ghana · #2,273,263 worldwide 179 citations · 39 works
  5. 5 Stella Appiah Ghana · #2,363,270 worldwide 247 citations · 34 works
  6. 6 Jeanette Owusu Ghana · #2,364,145 worldwide 30 citations · 28 works
  7. 7 Prince Yaw Owusu Amoako Ghana · #2,635,415 worldwide 136 citations · 19 works
  8. 8 John Kingsley Arthur Ghana · #2,740,273 worldwide 253 citations · 27 works
  9. 9 Peter Agyekum Boateng Ghana · #3,019,972 worldwide 262 citations · 86 works
  10. 10 Samuel Ameyaw Ghana · #3,051,505 worldwide 171 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at Valley View University

What are the most cited papers from Valley View University?

The most cited paper from Valley View University is "Clinical placement experiences by undergraduate nursing students in selected teaching hospitals in Ghana" (Confidence Alorse Atakro, Ernestina Armah, Awube Menlah et al., 2019), with 110 citations. Next come "Prevalence and Predictors of Dysmenorrhea, Its Effect, and Coping Mechanisms among Adolescents in Shai Osudoku District, Ghana" (91) and "Bank credit risk and credit information sharing in Africa: Does credit information sharing institutions and context matter?" (87).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Clinical placement experiences by undergraduate nursing students in selected teaching hospitals in Ghana Confidence Alorse Atakro, Ernestina Armah, Awube Menlah et al. · BMC Nursing Open access 14 Jan 2019 110
2 Prevalence and Predictors of Dysmenorrhea, Its Effect, and Coping Mechanisms among Adolescents in Shai Osudoku District, Ghana Kwabena Acheampong, Dorothy Baffour-Awuah, Daniel Ganu et al. · Obstetrics and Gynecology International Open access 20 May 2019 91
3 Bank credit risk and credit information sharing in Africa: Does credit information sharing institutions and context matter? Baah Aye Kusi, Elikplimi Komla Agbloyor, Kwadjo Ansah‐Adu et al. · Research in International Business and Finance 2 Aug 2017 87
4 Prevalence of hypertension in Ghanaian society: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and GRADE assessment Fidelis Atibila, Gill A. ten Hoor, Emmanuel Timmy Donkoh et al. · Systematic Reviews ReviewOpen access 7 Aug 2021 75
5 Causes of Failure of Students in Computer Programming Courses: The Teacher Learner Perspective Kofi Adu-ManuSarpong, John Kingsley Arthur, Prince Yaw Owusu Amoako · International Journal of Computer Applications Open access 18 Sep 2013 70
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Valley View University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Corporate Governance, Institutional Quality, Governance, Social Capital, Economic Growth, ICT, Fiscal Policy and Inequality.

▲ 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. Corporate Governance14▲ 9.7×11 topics
  2. Institutional Quality13▲ 66×2 topics
  3. Education12▲ 3.5×10 topics
  4. Governance11▲ 18×6 topics
  5. Economic Growth10▲ 6.6×12 topics
  6. Globalization10▲ 2.6×23 topics
  7. Social Capital10▲ 9.7×6 topics
  8. Supply Chain Management10▲ 5.6×8 topics
  9. Sustainability10▲ 2.0×18 topics
  10. ICT9▲ 36×2 topics
  11. Economic Development9▲ 5.8×9 topics
  12. Fiscal Policy9▲ 22×2 topics
  13. Inequality9▲ 20×2 topics
  14. Leadership9▲ 9.2×10 topics
  15. Innovation8▲ 4.2×10 topics
  16. Knowledge Economy8▲ 39×1 topic
  17. financial access8▲ 106×1 topic
  18. Poverty Reduction7▲ 27×4 topics
  19. Performance Measurement6▲ 12×5 topics
  20. Corruption6▲ 20×3 topics
  21. Labor Market6▲ 11×3 topics
  22. Gender Equality6▲ 11×3 topics
  23. Risk Management6▲ 6.1×4 topics
  24. Firm Performance6▲ 16×2 topics
  25. Development5▲ 7.9×7 topics
  26. Informal Economy5▲ 54×1 topic
  27. Tax Evasion5▲ 57×1 topic
  28. Consumer Behavior5▲ 4.3×9 topics
  29. Entrepreneurship5▲ 6.6×6 topics
  30. Customer Satisfaction5▲ 7.9×4 topics
  31. Finance5▲ 14×2 topics
  32. Empowerment5▲ 25×2 topics
  33. Global Financial Crisis5▲ 19×2 topics
  34. Financial Inclusion4▲ 46×1 topic
  35. Microfinance4▲ 46×1 topic
  36. Organizational Culture4▲ 5.8×4 topics
  37. Ethical Identity4▲ 19×1 topic
  38. Technology Acceptance Model4▲ 14×2 topics
  39. Employee Engagement4▲ 11×4 topics
  40. Transport Infrastructure4▲ 25×2 topics

Which research topics does Valley View University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Economic Growth and Development, Taxation and Compliance Studies, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion and Islamic Finance and Banking Studies.

Economic Growth and Deve…8Economic Growth and Development: 8 fractional worksTaxation and Compliance Studies: 5 fractional worksMicrofinance and Financi…4Microfinance and Financial Inclusion: 4 fractional worksIslamic Finance and Bank…4Islamic Finance and Banking Studies: 4 fractional worksFiscal Policy and Economic Growth: 4 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 3 fractional worksBiblical Studies and Int…3Biblical Studies and Interpretation: 3 fractional worksAuditing, Earnings Management, Governance: 3 fractional worksFinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance: 3 fractional worksReligion, Society, and Development: 2 fractional works
Information SystemsEconomics and EconometricsAccountingManagement Information Systems2 others

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

  1. 1 Economic Growth and Development Information Systems 8 works
  2. 2 Taxation and Compliance Studies Economics and Econometrics 5 works
  3. 3 Microfinance and Financial Inclusion Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  4. 4 Islamic Finance and Banking Studies Accounting 4 works
  5. 5 Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  6. 6 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 3 works
  7. 7 Biblical Studies and Interpretation Religious studies 3 works
  8. 8 Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance Accounting 3 works
  9. 9 FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance Management Information Systems 3 works
  10. 10 Religion, Society, and Development Sociology and Political Science 2 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 available75.0%not open25.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.2%domestic only80.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Valley View University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 76% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Valley View University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00069% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Valley View University0.0011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Valley View University 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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Valley View University9.6% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 11.4% in 2023.

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