Top 10 institutions in Biological Sciences
Saudi Arabia’s leading institutions for high-quality science, ordered by weighted fractional count (WFC) for 2016. Also shown are WFC from 2012, the change in WFC between 2012 and 2016 and the article count (Count) for 2016. Subject area tables draw from institutions of the wider Middle East region. Articles are from the 68 journals that comprise the Nature Index.
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| 1 | Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel | 63.97 | 66.14 | 115 | |
| 2 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel | 41.75 | 34.69 | 98 | |
| 3 | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel | 12.40 | 22.93 | 48 | |
| 4 | Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel | 31.49 | 18.29 | 63 | |
| 5 | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel | 9.90 | 10.42 | 26 | |
| 6 | Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Israel | 8.23 | 8.39 | 32 | |
| 7 | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia | 0.98 | 2.57 | 13 | |
| 8 | University of Haifa (HU), Israel | 6.87 | 2.31 | 18 | |
| 9 | King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC), Saudi Arabia | 0.62 | 2.19 | 18 | |
| 10 | Koç University (KU), Turkey | 0.00 | 2.07 | 9 |
Footnote
* Percentage change is only shown for institutions with a 2016 WFC of more than 1.