The Webometrics ranking has rated the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, as first in Nigeria and number 17 in Africa.

The ranking tagged “Transparent Ranking: Top Universities by Citations in Top Google Scholar Profiles,” which was recently published on webometrics.info, is based on the highest number of citations from research publications.

According to the online research gatekeeper, the ranking which is a direct measurement of quality of research output for the year, has only UNN as the only Nigerian university in the top 20 in Africa while the institution is also ranked 1,108 in the world with 108,209 citations.

Second from Nigeria on the ranking is the University of Ibadan with 86,756 followed by the University of Ilorin with 74,245 citations.

Completing the top five from Nigeria are Covenant University with 55,844 citations and the University of Lagos with 41,121 citations.

On the top spot in the whole of Africa is the University of Cape Town with 996,898 citations while the Harvard University is rated as number one in the world with 8,704,969 citations.