Saudi first in Arab world on Nature index for quality scientific research

The education of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia topped the list of Arab countries and ranked 30th globally in the British “Nature” index for evaluating countries, universities, and government and private institutions for the year 2022 in the quality of scientific research.

The Kingdom’s ranking came from the data that the magazine relies on based on scientific publications in the best 82 international scientific journals, where the number of Saudi publications in these journals reached 448 research, and Nature included 26 Saudi universities in its tables for this year, compared to only 16 universities in the 2018.

What is Nature Index?

The Nature Index is a ranking of more than 10,000 global research organizations in terms of their contribution to research published in 82 high-quality scientific journals.

These journals choose independent committees of researchers in various fields of the natural sciences, to become the leading journals in their fields.