2016 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences - academic

The 2016 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015.

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# Institution Share 2015 Count 2015
1 University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa 3.01 12
2 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits University), South Africa 2.84 17
3 University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa 1.74 9
4 University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa 0.74 6
5 North-West University (NWU), South Africa 0.65 4
6 University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa 0.58 1
7 University of Zambia, Zambia 0.55 2
8 Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia 0.53 4
9 Assiut University, Egypt 0.52 3
10 University of Botswana (UB), Botswana 0.51 3
11 University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa 0.38 3
12 University of Gabès, Tunisia 0.36 1
13 Stellenbosch University (SU), South Africa 0.35 4
14 University Hassan II Casablanca (UHII), Morocco 0.31 2
15 Makerere University, Uganda 0.28 2
16 Marien Ngouabi University (UMNG), Congo 0.25 1
17 University of La Réunion, Reunion 0.24 6
18 National School of Engineers of Sfax, Tunisia 0.21 1
19 University of Kinshasa (UNIKIN), Congo 0.20 1
20 University of Science and Technology Houari Boumedienne (USTHB), Algeria 0.20 1
21 Université Moulay-Ismaïl (UMI), Morocco 0.17 1
21 Hassan II Mohammedia University (UH2MC), Morocco 0.17 1
22 Pwani University (PU), Kenya 0.14 1
22 University of Nigeria (UNN), Nigeria 0.14 1
23 Alexandria University, Egypt 0.13 1
23 Abdou Moumouni University (UAM), Niger 0.13 1
23 University of Douala, Cameroon 0.13 1
24 Université Pédagogique Nationale (UPN), Congo 0.11 1
25 Rhodes University (RU), South Africa 0.09 2
26 Nelson Mandela University (NMU), South Africa 0.08 1
26 Tanta University, Egypt 0.08 1
27 Technical University of Kenya (TUK), Kenya 0.08 1
27 University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 0.08 1
28 Ain Shams University, Egypt 0.06 1
29 Université Omar Bongo, Gabon 0.05 1
30 Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD), Senegal 0.05 1
31 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya 0.04 1
32 University of Lagos (Unilag), Nigeria 0.04 1
32 University of Ghana, Ghana 0.04 1
33 American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt 0.03 1
34 University of Yaounde I (UYI), Cameroon 0.03 1
35 Abdelmalek Essaâdi University (UAE), Morocco 0.01 1

Footnote

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  1. The data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, they cover the natural sciences only and outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output).
  2. The Nature Index is one indicator of institutional research performance. The metrics of Count and Share used to order Nature Index listings are based on an institution’s or country’s publication output in 82 natural-science journals through 2022, in 2023 64 health-science journals were added to the Index. The 146 journals in the Nature Index were selected on reputation by an independent panel of leading scientists in their fields.
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