Understanding and reporting the impact of education and socio-economic status on scientific research in Africa.

AiS

AiS Index

Africa in Science Index (AiSi) is a country-level statistic composite index that balances scientific output with educational, human development and socio-economic status (DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.17185.33125). The AiSi value draws on a wide range of individual metrics from the number of publications and universities in a specific country through literacy rate, gender parity, education index, gender parity and human development (HD) index. Additionally, the index takes into account the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), capita and external debt. Indices presented in AiSi are obtained from public sources and scientific databases, and normalised by the African average. AiSi was developed by AiS founder and chairman Aymen I. Idris, Ph.D. and a team of students at the department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield (England, UK) in 2020, and adopted and further developed by AiS.

AiSi Ranking 2022

RankCountry NameH-IndexAiSi
1egypt3492
2south africa5671.934
3tunisia2351.664
4algeria2131.662
5seychelles741.56
6botswana1271.515
7morocco2321.413
8mauritius1041.379
9namibia1191.365
10ghana1911.331
11zimbabwe1641.274
12cameroon1671.235
13kenya3101.219
14eswatini731.174
15uganda2091.13
16libya941.114
17republic of the congo1331.112
18gabon1201.105
19malawi1661.074
20ethiopia1931.07
21gambia1451.065
22nigeria2601.049
23zambia1511.034
24rwanda1071.029
25lesotho461.018
26tanzania2051.004
27cape verde380.978
28sao tome and principe230.937
29liberia630.885
30benin1170.846
31togo630.835
32madagascar1130.812
33sudan1190.772
34ivory coast1340.752
35sierra leone730.75
36senegal1460.739
37burkina faso1260.689
38eritrea530.682
39mozambique1300.651
40guinea-bissau680.639
41burundi550.623
42democratic republic of the congo780.62
43somalia280.532
44comoros240.524
45central african republic600.453
46mali1240.447
47guinea780.435
48mauritania500.431
49equatorial guinea330.401
50djibouti310.393
51niger960.365
52south sudan200.279
53angola560.24
54chad490.069

Parameters used to calculate AiS Index (AiSi) are expressed as percentage of Africa average. Source for H-Index: scimagojr.com.

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