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West African College of Physicians

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Research works
79
▲ 71% vs 2013–17
Citations
490
6.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
57%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: West African College of Physicians is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.44× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.41× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.67× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.11× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 1.14× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.53× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.09× its world share, 11 worksMedicineNursing: 1.25× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.01× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.10× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.91× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6.46× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.35× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 6.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at West African College of Physicians?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: COVID-19, Mortality, Pandemic, Medical Education, Global Health, Global Surgery, Health Development and Vaccine.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 21 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. COVID-192▲ 6.3×10 topics
  2. Climate Change2▲ 2.9×7 topics
  3. Epidemiology2▲ 1.75×13 topics
  4. Mortality2▲ 12×4 topics
  5. Pandemic2▲ 6.5×6 topics
  6. Public Health2▲ 4.2×8 topics
  7. Global Health2▲ 39×2 topics
  8. Medical Education2▲ 23×2 topics
  9. Treatment2▲ 5.0×6 topics
  10. Global Surgery2▲ 288×1 topic
  11. Health Development2▲ 288×1 topic
  12. Vaccine1▲ 13×3 topics
  13. Diagnosis1▲ 5.1×6 topics
  14. Economic Growth1▲ 5.8×5 topics
  15. Oxidative Stress1▲ 3.0×6 topics
  16. Fiscal Policy1▲ 20×4 topics
  17. Global Burden of Disease1▲ 18×4 topics
  18. Health Effects1▲ 7.2×3 topics
  19. Stock Market1▲ 19×2 topics
  20. Financial Markets1▲ 28×1 topic
  21. business impact1▲ 38×1 topic

Which research topics does West African College of Physicians publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Global Health and Surgery, COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts, Climate Change and Health Impacts and Air Quality and Health Impacts.

Global Health and Surgery2Global Health and Surgery: 2 fractional worksCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts1COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts: 1 fractional worksClimate Change and Healt…1Climate Change and Health Impacts: 1 fractional worksAir Quality and Health I…1Air Quality and Health Impacts: 1 fractional worksTuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 1 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 1 fractional worksFiscal Policy and Econom…1Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: 1 fractional worksClimate Change and Geoen…1Climate Change and Geoengineering: 1 fractional worksDiverse Scientific Resea…1Diverse Scientific Research Studies: 1 fractional worksBig Data and Business In…0Big Data and Business Intelligence: 0 fractional works
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthEconomics and EconometricsHealth, Toxicology and MutagenesisInfectious Diseases4 others

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

  1. 1 Global Health and Surgery Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works
  2. 2 COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  3. 3 Climate Change and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 1 works
  4. 4 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 1 works
  5. 5 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 1 works
  6. 6 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 1 works
  7. 7 Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  8. 8 Climate Change and Geoengineering Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  9. 9 Diverse Scientific Research Studies General Health Professions 1 works
  10. 10 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 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 available57.1%not open42.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.7%domestic only70.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has West African College of Physicians's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 71% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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