Different measures of impact and/or influence of the cancer research papers from 17 leading African countries
| Country | ISO2 | % revs | JIF dom | JIF all | ACI dom | ACI all | WS all | Rank |
| South Africa | ZA | 15.8 | 2.3 | 3.7 | 8.7 | 10.5 | 80 | 23 |
| Ethiopia | ET | 14.5 | 2.4 | 3.4 | 9.4 | 10.2 | 95 | 25 |
| Uganda | UG | 10.6 | 2.1 | 5.7 | 6.4 | 11.9 | 75 | 28 |
| Cameroon | CM | 11.5 | 1.7 | 3.1 | 8.2 | 12.5 | 137 | 33 |
| Zambia | ZM | 13.7 | 1.8 | 5.6 | 0.0 | 11.4 | 70 | 39 |
| Kenya | KE | 12.6 | 1.7 | 4.8 | 6.3 | 10.3 | 67 | 40 |
| Ghana | GH | 14.8 | 2.2 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 8.4 | 51 | 40 |
| Tanzania | TZ | 9.7 | 1.7 | 3.5 | 6.3 | 11.0 | 101 | 41 |
| Egypt | EG | 6.1 | 2.2 | 2.9 | 8.7 | 10.1 | 72 | 49 |
| Sudan | SD | 12.9 | 1.5 | 2.8 | 4.7 | 7.2 | 61 | 61 |
| Zimbabwe | ZW | 9.1 | 1.4 | 5.9 | 3.4 | 6.1 | 66 | 62 |
| Nigeria | NG | 10.6 | 1.4 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 5.8 | 21 | 74 |
| Botswana | BW | 9.5 | 1.1 | 4.3 | 0.8 | 9.9 | 0 | 75 |
| Namibia | NA | 8.7 | 4.7 | 0.0 | 7.5 | 0 | 81 | |
| Algeria | DZ | 5.2 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 3.9 | 6.6 | 51 | 82 |
| Tunisia | TN | 7.3 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 4.2 | 5.6 | 28 | 82 |
| Morocco | MA | 12.8 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 3.1 | 8 | 83 |
North Africa countries: bold type; sub-Saharan African countries: roman type.
ACI, mean 5 year citation count; dom, domestic papers without international collaboration; JIF, mean journal impact factor; overall rank, sum of individual rankings for six indicators; % revs, percentage of reviews; WS, worldscale value for top-cited 5% of papers (with ACI=37 or more).