How SA universities rank globally

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Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain.

The research group focused the 2022 ranking on three main indicators:

• Visibility: The number of external networks (subnets) linking to the institution’s web pages ( weighted 50%)
  
• Transparency or Openness: The number of citations from the Top 310 authors, excluding the top 30 outliers (10%)
  
• Excellence: The number of papers amongst the top 10% most cited in each one of all 27 disciplines of the full database over the last five years (40%)

According to BusinessTech, South Africa's 123 higher learning institutes were ranked, falling between 246th and 29,531st in the world. South Africa has 26 public universities, including 12 traditional universities, six comprehensive universities, and eight universities of technology. All universities feature in the rankings.

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Here's the full ranking of South African 26 public universities:

The full rankings can be accessed here.