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Peerford

Research intelligence for African universities

Peerford counts every African institution’s research the same way: publications, citations, impact and collaboration. Each university gets a public site, a private workspace and fair benchmarks against its peers.

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Peerford home: institution, publication, scholar and country counts above a map of research across Africa
  • 4,500+research institutions
  • 3.6Mpublications, 1900 to today
  • 2.5Mscholars
  • 55African countries, every one

One platform, three surfaces

For the public, for universities and for researchers

The continental portal

Every African institution, scholar and publication in one searchable, comparable graph: countries, institutions, researchers, fields, rankings and comparisons. Free and public.

University sites and workspaces

A branded public research site on the university’s own domain, and a private workspace to curate staff, departments and research output, with benchmarks against peer institutions.

Commons, for researchers

A place where researchers talk about their work, connected to their own publication record.

Peerford rankings of African institutions by publications, filterable by metric, type and country

Rankings

Ranked over the same years, on the same terms

Rank institutions and countries by publications, citations, field-weighted impact, top-10% papers, open access or international collaboration, and filter by type and country.

See the live rankings

Why Peerford

Built for research offices and university leadership

Counted the same way for everyone

Every figure is computed from the works themselves, by one method for every institution, so comparisons are fair.

Rankings and comparison

Institutions and countries ranked over the same years on the same terms; compare up to six institutions side by side.

Impact, not just counts

Citations, field-weighted impact, world top-10% papers, open-access share and international collaboration.

Reports that hold up

Submission packs and scheduled reports for university leadership, built only from figures the platform has computed.

Four languages

English, French, Portuguese and Arabic, for every region of the continent.

Linked to ORCID

Scholar records connect to ORCID identifiers, so a researcher’s work follows them between institutions.

Bring Peerford to your university

Tell us about your institution and we’ll show you its research, counted properly, on its own Peerford site.

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