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Foundation: 1979

Mission: To improve human health and quality of life through research, capacity building, innovation and service delivery

Vision: To be a leading centre of excellence in research for human health

34th
Overall percentile
14th
Research percentile
66th
Innovation percentile
46th
Societal percentile

Evolution of the institution

The following data gives a quick reading on the scientific performance in the last years. The research ranking refers to the volume, impact and quality of the institution's research output. The innovation ranking is calculated on the number of patent applications of the institution and the citations that its research output receives from patents. Finally, the societal ranking is based on the number of pages of the institution's website and the number of backlinks and mentions from social networks.

Compared to its context

The result of the evaluation of the institution can be compared to obtain a view of the country, the region to which it belongs and the institutions of the world, placing it in their respective positions.

Compared to All sectors (percentiles)
Compared to Health sector (percentiles)

Ranks by Subject areas/categories

We have divided the scientific output of the institution into 19 large areas of knowledge and the following table shows only the ranks in different territorial domains achieved by the institution in each of the areas. For an institution to have a presence in an area, it is necessary that it exceed in the last year a minimum output threshold equivalent to twice the percentage that this area represents in the world. If you need scientific indicators on these areas visit Scopus and/or SciVal.

 
AreaWorldAfricaKenya
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3618th135th6th
Arts and Humanities 634th10th1st
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3874th52nd4th
Environmental Science 1990th25th1st
Medicine +2059th18th1st
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 2838th63rd3rd
Psychology 1323rd13th1st
Social Sciences 2026th37th3rd
Veterinary 643rd34th3rd

Publishing profile

These are the journals used by the institution's researchers to publish their work in the last year. The size of each circle represents the value of the SJR of the publication, and its spatial position represents its subject matter.

This visualizatión allows you to identify the knowledge areas where the institution has published, recognize the prestige of the scientific journals in which the institution knowledge has been published, and identify predominant scientific communities.

Where is the institution located?

  • Government
  • Health
  • Universities
  • Companies
  • Non-Profit
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