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Institution Spotlight: University of Cape Town

University of Cape Town is the highest-ranked research institution in Africa, with 347.0k indexed works.

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  • Continental rank: #null
  • Research works: 347.0k
  • Citations: 8.5M
  • Impact factor: 1.05

University of Cape Town (South Africa) holds the top position in the continental university research ranking with a composite research score of 68.5.

It has produced 347.0k indexed research works accumulating 8.5M citations, at 1.05 citations per publication.

Its regional rank is #null in Southern Africa and it is the #null institution nationally in South Africa.

Figures used in this report

works count
346,990
cited by count
8,482,736
impact factor
1
score
69
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