Top 10 Institutions in Physical Sciences
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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| 1 | Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel | 75.93 | 59.17 | 223 | |
| 2 | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel | 45.56 | 51.01 | 177 | |
| 3 | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia | 26.46 | 35.23 | 74 | |
| 4 | Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel | 50.44 | 34.89 | 198 | |
| 5 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel | 32.96 | 30.65 | 133 | |
| 6 | Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran | 9.53 | 14.73 | 87 | |
| 7 | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel | 11.30 | 12.18 | 37 | |
| 8 | Shiraz University, Iran | 3.17 | 10.45 | 18 | |
| 8 | Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Israel | 8.60 | 10.45 | 24 | |
| 9 | Bilkent University, Turkey | 8.19 | 6.39 | 16 | |
| 10 | Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Iran | 2.39 | 4.90 | 10 |
Footnote
* Percentage change is only shown for institutions with a 2016 WFC of more than 1.