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University of Yaoundé I

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Research Index 2026 · 90% range 1246–1291 of 1,305 · score 3.1

Not ranked in the World University Rankings

We couldn’t find an official student count for this university, so its alumni outcomes can’t be measured per student. It is listed in the Research Index but not ranked overall.

Research Index

A · Quality
3.9
B · Strength
2.0

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: 1262. On strength alone: 1279. The Research Index scores research only; admissions, earnings and alumni outcomes are scored in the overall ranking where data exists.

The numbers behind it (2020–2023)

Papers in the top 10% of their field
3.9% (3.3%–4.6%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.3% (0.2%–0.6%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
72
All papers (fractional count)
1,835
International co-authored
58.7%
Open access
65.3%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
3 (0.51 per 1,000)

Core publications, fractional counting, field-normalised citation shares. Brackets show Leiden’s stability interval. Collaboration and open-access shares use full counting and aren’t field-normalised. Retraction counts come from the Retraction Watch database and include publishers’ mass retractions as well as honest-error retractions; a retraction is not by itself evidence of misconduct, and the count is never scored.

By field

Biomedical & health sciences=1570range 1474–1627 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=1076range 1037–1086 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science–fewer than 200 papers
Physical sciences & engineering=1602range 1510–1670 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=1035range 834–1182 of 1,262

Position over time

bottom2018–2021: 1153 of 1,1742020–2023: 1274 of 1,305

The same method applied to each 4-year publication window. The number of ranked universities grows from period to period, so position is shown as a share of the field.

How other rankings place it

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–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
–ARWU 2026 (not in top 100)

Other rankings are cited for comparison. The Research Index measures research only; QS and THE also use reputation surveys and figures universities submit, and ARWU counts prize winners and total output.

Prize winners

No Nobel, Fields, Turing or Abel laureates linked to this university in Wikidata.