Top 25 Institutions in the Region

Saudi Arabia’s leading institutions for high-quality science, ordered by weighted fractional count (WFC) for 2016. Also shown are WFC from 2012, the change in WFC between 2012 and 2016 and the article count (Count) for 2016. Subject area tables draw from institutions of the wider Middle East region. Articles are from the 68 journals that comprise the Nature Index.

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Rank 2016	Institution	WFC 2012	WFC 2016	Change in WFC 2012–2016*	Count 2016
1	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	161.29	149.54	-7.3%	369
2	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	107.75	96.66	-10.3%	285
3	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	68.75	93.40	35.9%	264
4	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	40.51	71.88	77.4%	168
5	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	96.01	65.55	-31.7%	285
6	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel	38.07	32.68	-14.2%	84
7	Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Israel	21.74	25.14	15.6%	66
8	Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran	9.53	14.90	56.3%	88
9	Bilkent University, Turkey	14.45	12.25	-15.2%	28
10	King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Saudi Arabia	5.24	10.90	107.9%	164
11	Shiraz University, Iran	4.04	10.45	158.8%	18
12	University of Cyprus	4.92	8.87	80.4%	71
13	Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Iran	3.40	6.53	92.3%	10
14	Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Iran	4.82	6.20	28.6%	28
15	Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey	4.57	5.47	19.5%	74
16	Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Iran	2.43	5.23	115.3%	11
17	University of Tehran (UT), Iran	3.02	5.12	69.7%	41
18	Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Iran	2.83	4.46	57.9%	41
19	University of Kurdistan, Iran	0.05	4.16	8216.7%	7
20	Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar	0.00	4.14	–	28
21	Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), Turkey	3.00	4.00	33.3%	4
22	Geological Survey of Israel	2.22	3.98	79.1%	7
23	University of Haifa (HU), Israel	8.41	3.91	-53.6%	28
24	King Saud University (KSU), Saudi Arabia	1.63	3.89	139.0%	32
25	Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Iran	4.75	3.86	-18.7%	19

Footnote

* Percentage change is only shown for institutions with a 2016 WFC of more than 1.