South Africa in SCImago Media Rankings
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Foundation: 1829
Mission: UCT is committed to engaging with the key issues of our natural and social worlds through outstanding teaching, research and scholarship. We seek to advance the status and distinctiveness of scholarship in Africa through building strategic partnerships across the continent, the global south and the rest of the world. UCT provides a vibrant and supportive intellectual environment that attracts and connects people from all over the world. We aim to produce graduates and future leaders who are influential locally and globally. Our qualifications are locally applicable and internationally acclaimed, underpinned by values of engaged citizenship and social justice. Our scholarship and research have a positive impact on our society and our environment. We will actively advance the pace of transformation within our university and beyond, nurturing an inclusive institutional culture which embraces diversity.
Vision: UCT is an inclusive and engaged research-intensive African university that inspires creativity through outstanding achievements in learning, discovery and citizenship; enhancing the lives of its students and staff; advancing a more equitable and sustainable social order and influencing the global higher education landscape.
History: www.uct.ac.za
The following data gives a quick reading on the scientific performance in the last years. The research ranking refers to the volume, impact and quality of the institution's research output. The innovation ranking is calculated on the number of patent applications of the institution and the citations that its research output receives from patents. Finally, the societal ranking is based on the number of pages of the institution's website and the number of backlinks and mentions from social networks.
The result of the evaluation of the institution can be compared to obtain a view of the country, the region to which it belongs and the institutions of the world, placing it in their respective positions.
We have divided the scientific output of the institution into 19 large areas of knowledge and the following table shows only the ranks in different territorial domains achieved by the institution in each of the areas. For an institution to have a presence in an area, it is necessary that it exceed in the last year a minimum output threshold equivalent to twice the percentage that this area represents in the world. If you need scientific indicators on these areas visit Scopus and/or SciVal.
| Area | World | Africa | BRIICS | South Africa |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences + | 1015th | 6th | 259th | 3rd |
| Arts and Humanities + | 298th | 7th | 20th | 6th |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1709th | 3rd | 322nd | 1st |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 553rd | 7th | 89th | 6th |
| Chemistry | 1940th | 16th | 471st | 3rd |
| Computer Science | 1744th | 17th | 345th | 4th |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences + | 767th | 5th | 224th | 1st |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 308th | 6th | 57th | 3rd |
| Energy | 1809th | 29th | 496th | 8th |
| Engineering + | 1908th | 17th | 444th | 3rd |
| Environmental Science | 1416th | 16th | 389th | 3rd |
| Mathematics | 1883rd | 34th | 406th | 9th |
| Medicine + | 609th | 1st | 111th | 1st |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | 1044th | 12th | 225th | 2nd |
| Physics and Astronomy | 1967th | 16th | 443rd | 4th |
| Psychology | 430th | 1st | 30th | 1st |
| Social Sciences + | 216th | 3rd | 23rd | 3rd |
| Veterinary | 541st | 26th | 111th | 5th |
These are the journals used by the institution's researchers to publish their work in the last year. The size of each circle represents the value of the SJR of the publication, and its spatial position represents its subject matter.
This visualizatión allows you to identify the knowledge areas where the institution has published, recognize the prestige of the scientific journals in which the institution knowledge has been published, and identify predominant scientific communities.
