caa a22 4500 463161912 CHVBK 20180406164750.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10734-006-9034-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10734-006-9034-4 Pouris Anastassios Institute for Technological Innovation, University of Pretoria, Room 4-4, Engineering II Building, Main Campus, Pretoria, South Africa aut The international performance of the South African academic institutions: a citation assessment [Elektronische Daten] [Anastassios Pouris] This article reports the results of an investigation to identify the disciplinary strengths and the international standing of the higher education institutions in South Africa. Even though comparative assessments provide valuable information for research administrations, researchers and students such information is not available in South Africa currently. The Essential Science Indicators database of the Institute for Scientific Information is utilized for the investigation and six South African universities are identified to be included in the top 1% of the world's institutions cited in the international scientific literature. The identified institutions are University of Cape Town, University of Pretoria, Orange Free State University, University of Witwatersrand, University of Natal and University of Stellenbosch. Analysis of the scientific disciplines in which the South African institutions meet the threshold requirements for inclusion in the database shows that the country has citation footprints in only nine of the 22 broad scientific disciplines. The article identifies the international standing of the South African universities in the various scientific disciplines, and elaborates on the consequences relevant to higher education and science and technology policy. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2006 Assessment nationallicence Citations nationallicence Evaluation nationallicence Higher education nationallicence Rankings nationallicence South Africa nationallicence Universities nationallicence Higher Education Springer Netherlands 54/4(2007-10-01), 501-509 0018-1560 54:4<501 2007 54 10734 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-006-9034-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-006-9034-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Pouris Anastassios Institute for Technological Innovation, University of Pretoria, Room 4-4, Engineering II Building, Main Campus, Pretoria, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Higher Education Springer Netherlands 54/4(2007-10-01), 501-509 0018-1560 54:4<501 2007 54 10734 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer