South Africa

1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020

Subject/journal group: All

The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for South Africa published between 1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020 which are tracked by the Nature Index.

Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.

Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.

Count	Share
378	80.62

Outputs by subject (FC)

Subject	Count	Share
Earth & Environmental Sciences	88	21.98
Life Sciences	157	27.84
Physical Sciences	151	24.20
Chemistry	41	15.24

1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020

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Collaborations between countries

Percentage of collaboration by Share

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Top 10 collaborators by Share

South Africa

United States of America (USA) (90.16)

24.86

65.30
United Kingdom (UK) (49.09)

16.95

32.14
Germany (38.93)

9.75

29.18
China (29.95)

8.11

21.84
France (21.66)

6.80

14.86
Italy (18.81)

4.18

14.63
Australia (18.39)

7.20

11.20
Netherlands (12.29)

5.01

7.28
Switzerland (12.17)

3.93

8.24
Spain (10.72)

4.78

5.94

Collaboration is determined by the combined fractional count (Share) of South Africa and the collaborating country.

Top 10 institutions from South Africa

Institution		Count	Share
1.	University of Cape Town (UCT)	162	17.09
2.	University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits University)	122	12.68
3.	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	44	9.01
4.	Stellenbosch University (SU)	40	4.99
5.	University of Johannesburg (UJ)	75	4.34
6.	University of Pretoria (UP)	35	3.32
7.	University of the Free State (UFS)	12	3.21
8.	Durban University of Technology (DUT)	11	3.02
9.	Astrophysics and Cosmology Research Unit (ACRU), UKZN	6	2.89
10.	North-West University (NWU)	25	2.63