Research Atlas

Who researches what, and where. Browse by country, institution, city or discipline.

952k
Researcher records
171
Countries
5k
Institutions
26
Disciplines

By country

Egypt167k
Nigeria161k
South Africa105k
Morocco73k
Algeria57k
Tunisia48k
Ethiopia46k
Kenya39k
Ghana31k
Cameroon22k
Uganda22k
Tanzania20k
Côte d'Ivoire12k
Sudan10k
Senegal10k
DR Congo9k
Zimbabwe8k
Zambia7k
Libya7k
Benin7k
Burkina Faso7k
Mozambique7k
Rwanda6k
Malawi5k

By discipline

medicine433kagricultural and biological sciences214kengineering201ksocial sciences189kenvironmental science158kbiochemistry, genetics and molecular biology150kcomputer science112khealth professions102keconomics, econometrics and finance75kbusiness, management and accounting74kmaterials science70kpsychology65kimmunology and microbiology63knursing56kchemistry46karts and humanities38kearth and planetary sciences38kdecision sciences37kmathematics33kphysics and astronomy30kenergy29kneuroscience27kpharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics19kdentistry15kveterinary9kchemical engineering9k

Research hubs

Cairo
Egypt
50k
Giza
Egypt
35k
Nairobi
Kenya
26k
Pretoria
South Africa
22k
Rabat
Morocco
20k
Tunis
Tunisia
20k
Johannesburg
South Africa
20k
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
16k
Kampala
Uganda
14k
Accra
Ghana
14k
Algiers
Algeria
13k
Ibadan
Nigeria
13k
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Where the gaps are

Some countries are markedly under-represented in disciplines that are substantial elsewhere in the corpus. That comparison is the most actionable thing this dataset supports.

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About these figures

A snapshot of how OpenAlex classifies the published output of researchers by institution and broad subject. Sources: OpenAlex, HAL and DOAJ.

  • Counts are records, not verified people — roughly 6.7 % share a name with another record, so totals are an upper bound.
  • Subjects are classifications of published work, not skills anyone declared. Locations are the institution’s, not the person’s.
  • There is no time dimension: nothing here describes trends, growth or how recent a researcher’s work is.
  • Coverage reflects what OpenAlex indexes and what we collected — not a country’s research capacity.