Webometrics Ranks UNN First In Nigeria - Education

Dear All,

WEBOMETRICS just released its December 2015 ranking of Top 2000 Universities in the world based on their Google Scholar Citation profiles[First Edition (December 2015)].

It is my pleasure to inform you that UNN came 1st in Nigeria, 14th in Africa and 1389th in the world. As a matter of fact, less than 30 African Universities were ranked. Also, only UNN and University Ibadan were ranked from Nigeria, a pointer to the overall poor quality of academic publications from most Nigerian universities.

Hence, our collective efforts are paying off and UNN is now counted amongst the best in the world. We are now reaping the dividends of increased publications by UNN staff in high impact and visible journals. However, we are still a long way from getting into the top five in Africa. But it is achievable, if we intensity our publications in high impact visible journals that can be accessed and cited from all over the world.

A summary of the ranking as it concerns Africa is:

Sub: Ranking of Top 20 African Universities
Africa rank
World rank
University
Country
 Citations
1
244
University of Cape Town
SOUTH AFRICA
164542
2
443
University of Pretoria
SOUTH AFRICA
95192
3
543
Stellenbosch University
SOUTH AFRICA
74142
4
646
University of Kwazulu Natal
SOUTH AFRICA
58311
5
648
University of the Witwatersrand
SOUTH AFRICA
58155
6
802
Zewail City of Science and Technology
EGYPT
42084
7
1062
Cairo University
EGYPT
26579
8
1096
University of Nairobi
KENYA
24577
9
1124
North West University
SOUTH AFRICA
23501
10
1153
American University Cairo
Egypt
22235
11
1178
University of Tanta
EGYPT
21677
12
1193
University of the Western Cape
SOUTH AFRICA
20969
13
1225
University of the Free State
SOUTH AFRICA
19795
14
1389
University of Nigeria
NIGERIA
15076
15
1417
University of South Africa
SOUTH AFRICA
14535
16
1455
Ain Shams University
EGYPT
13780
17
1457
Kenyatta University
KENYA
13725
18
1608
University of Ibadan
NIGERIA
10867
19
1615
Beni Suef University
Egypt
10765
20
1718
Benha University
Egypt
9472

The full ranking and methodology can be retrieved from: http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/169