West Africa / Ghana WCA
West and Central African Research and Education Network Other · Accra · Ghana · founded 2006
Official site GRID grid.463700.6 ROR
Citations
74
To those publications
Scholars
4
2 carry an ORCID — 50% of them.
Research impact, 2016–2025 Field-weighted against the world’s papers
Publications 15 Publications 2016–2025
Citations 54 Citations to papers published 2016–2025
Field-weighted impact 1.48 Field-weighted impact 1.00 is the world average · median 0.39
World top 10% 13% World top 10% 2 of 15 papers, by citations in their field and year
Open access 80% Open access 12 papers free to read
Diamond 1 · 7% Free to read and to publish Gold 2 · 13% In an open-access journal Hybrid 2 · 13% Open in a subscription journal Green 7 · 47% A copy in a repository Closed 3 · 20% Behind a paywall Output and citations by year
What it publishes in By field, with field-weighted impact
Computer Science 747% FWCI 2.20
Decision Sciences 747% FWCI 0.07
Medicine 320% FWCI 2.28
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 213% FWCI 3.23
Business, Management and Accounting 213%
Who it works with 93% of papers have a co-author abroad
Countries this institution’s papers are co-written with papers co-written 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Most frequent partner countries
United Kingdom 5 South Africa 3 Nigeria 3 United States 2 France 2 Korea 2 Japan 2 Netherlands 2 Papers with at least one author in that country. 93% of all papers have a co-author abroad.
Institutions written with most
University of Sheffield GB 3 papers Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information KR 2 papers EIFL 2 papers Brunel University of London GB 2 papers National Institute of Informatics JP 2 papers Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology GH 2 papers City University of New York US 1 paper Confederation of Open Access Repositories NL 1 paper ETH Zurich CH 1 paper GÉANT 1 paper Grace Mission University US 1 paper Institut de Recherche pour le Développement FR 1 paper Research for the Sustainable Development Goals 7 papers address at least one goal
1 No poverty 0 No papers yet
2 Zero hunger 1 6.7% of papers
3 Good health and well-being 0 No papers yet
4 Quality education 1 6.7% of papers
Who funds it 2 of 15 papers name a funder
European Commission 2 papers H2020 Research Infrastructures 1 paper Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 1 paper Compare this institution Put WACREN beside its peers, year by year, on the same terms.
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