University of Cape Town (UCT) South Africa
Research
Date range: 1 August 2022 - 31 July 2023
Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All
The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for University of Cape Town (UCT) published between 1 August 2022 - 31 July 2023 which are tracked by the Nature Index.
Hover over the donut graph to view the Share for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.
Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.
Count | Share |
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244 | 19.93 |
Outputs by subject (Share)
Subject | Count | Share |
---|---|---|
Biological sciences | 63 | 5.96 |
Chemistry | 6 | 1.47 |
Earth & environmental sciences | 21 | 4.47 |
Health sciences | 81 | 8.73 |
Physical sciences | 107 | 2.30 |
Share output for the past 5 years
2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022* |
---|---|---|---|---|
15.69 | 15.87 | 19.28 | 17.55 | 26.70 |
Compare University of Cape Town (UCT) with other institutions
*Note: 2022 data contains Share for article affiliations from newly added health-science journals.
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Collaboration
Date range: 1 August 2022 - 31 July 2023
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
- 13.21% Domestic (86 institutions)
- 86.79% International (2369 institutions)
Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators with University of Cape Town (UCT) by Share*
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and Stellenbosch University (SU)
(7.94)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits University)
(6.14)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)
(4.89)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS)
(4.23)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)
(2.45)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and Western Cape Government
(2.36)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH)
(1.95)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS)
(1.85)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of Pretoria (UP)
(1.58)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
(1.40)
Top 10 international collaborators with University of Cape Town (UCT) by Share*
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
(7.74)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of Oxford
(7.94)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and Harvard University
(6.00)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)
(5.72)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of Cambridge
(5.10)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and UCL
(4.41)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and Imperial College London (ICL)
(4.02)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of Bern (UniBE)
(3.66)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
(3.59)
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University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of Liverpool
(3.00)
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Relationships
University of Cape Town (UCT)
- UCT South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI)
- UCT Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa (CIDRI-Africa)
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
- ALICE Collaboration
- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
- Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance (CAMRA)
- Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD)
- DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research (CBTBR)
- DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Catalysis in South Africa (c*change)
- DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (CoE-MaSS)
- DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences (CoE-Pal)
- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Birds as Keys to Biodiversity Conservation
- Functional Annotation of the Mammalian Genome (FANTOM)
- Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH)
- Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA)
- International Centre for Education, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences over Africa (ICEMASA)
- MRC Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders
- MRC-UCT Gynecological Cancer Research Centre
- Molecular Mycobacteriology Research Unit (MMRU)
- More Medicines for Tuberculosis (MM4TB)
- Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research
- Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)
- SAMRC Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders Research Unit

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