Purpose – This paper focused on African research output and aimed to measure and compare the continent’s leading countries in terms of the most indexed publications in the Web of Science. It also aimed to discover where the position of Egypt is on the African world map of research and estimate the rising percentage of African research output.

Design/methodology/approach – The paper focused on African research output from 2015 to 2019. Data were extracted from the InCites research analytical tool from the Web of Science Group, collected from 2015 to 2019, and used to examine the growth of research output.

Findings – The paper proved that the top 10 African countries in publishing scientific research are (South Africa, Egypt, Tunisia, Nigeria, Algeria, Kenya, Morocco, Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda), and the top 10 countries contribute with 92.2% of total publications in Africa in the last 5 years, which means the rest African countries contribute only with 7.8 % of total publications. Found that Egypt has the most cited documents with 67% of the total publications which reflect the quality of Egyptian scientific research.

Originality/Value – This study provides statistics on African research outputs and concentrating on the top 10 countries that have the most publications from 2015-2019, and this is the first paper discussing these countries in this period.

目的——本文侧重于非洲的研究成果，旨在衡量和比较非洲大陆领先国家在科学网络中索引最多的出版物。它还旨在发现埃及在非洲研究世界地图上的位置，并估计非洲研究产出的上升百分比。

设计/方法/方法——该论文侧重于 2015 年至 2019 年的非洲研究成果。数据取自 Web of Science Group 的 InCites 研究分析工具，从 2015 年至 2019 年收集，用于检查研究成果的增长。

调查结果——论文证明，发表科研成果前10位的非洲国家是（南非、埃及、突尼斯、尼日利亚、阿尔及利亚、肯尼亚、摩洛哥、埃塞俄比亚、加纳、乌干达），前10位国家贡献了92.2%过去 5 年在非洲的出版物数量，这意味着其他非洲国家仅占总出版物的 7.8%。发现埃及的被引用文献最多，占总出版物的 67%，反映了埃及的科学研究质量。

原创性/价值——这项研究提供了非洲研究成果的统计数据，并集中在 2015-2019 年发表论文最多的前 10 个国家，这是该时期讨论这些国家的第一篇论文。