Life Below Water

African research focus

Research spans the blue economy along Africa’s 30,000 km of coastline, including aquaculture, mangrove restoration, IUU-fishing detection, and ocean-data infrastructure.

Top universities for Life Below Water

Institutions producing the most publications tagged with this goal.

1. 1.

   Kafr el-Sheikh University

   Egypt

   560 publications

2. 2.

   Tunis El Manar University

   Tunisia

   358 publications

3. 3.

   Abdelmalek Essaâdi University

   Morocco

   304 publications

4. 4.

   University of Cape Town

   South Africa

   268 publications

5. 5.

   Stellenbosch University

   South Africa

   219 publications

6. 6.

   Alexandria University

   Egypt

   181 publications

7. 7.

   Rhodes University

   South Africa

   178 publications

8. 8.

   University of the Witwatersrand

   South Africa

   167 publications

9. 9.

   Zagazig University

   Egypt

   163 publications

10. 10.

    Ain Shams University

    Egypt

    150 publications

11. 11.

    Suez University

    Egypt

    150 publications

12. 12.

    Nelson Mandela University

    South Africa

    147 publications

Recent publications

Most recent research from African institutions tagged with Life Below Water.

• 2026Open Access9 citations

  Occurrence and human health risks of microplastics in the Bay of Bengal using Perna viridis as sentinel species

  Chemical Engineering Journal Advances · Chouaib Doukkali University

• 2026Open Access6 citations

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Monte Carlo Simulation-Based Modeling for Predicting Groundwater Pollution Indices and Nitrate-Linked Health Risks in Coastal Areas Facing Agricultural Intensification

  Hydrology · Ibn Tofail University

• 20263 citations

  Pyrazole‐Based Chelators as Corrosion Inhibitors for Mild Steel in 1 M HCl and Seawater: EIS, SEM/EDX, and DFT Insights

  ChemistrySelect · Mohamed I University

• 2026Open Access3 citations

  The 2023 Mw 6.8 Al Haouz Lower Crustal Earthquake Buried in a Thick Crust Within a Thin Lithosphere Beneath the High Atlas Mountain Range (Morocco)

  Seismological Research Letters · Abdelmalek Essaâdi University

• 20263 citations

  Widespread presence of anthropogenic compounds in marine dissolved organic matter

  Nature Geoscience · Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University

• 2026Open Access2 citations

  Anthropogenic particles accumulation in sea cucumbers: insights from a transitional environment

  Marine Pollution Bulletin · Abdelmalek Essaâdi University

• 20262 citations

  Computational identification of marine microalgal metabolites as human voltage-dependent anion channel 1 modulators: Virtual screening, DFT analysis, molecular dynamics simulation, and machine learning-supported cheminformatic validation

  Next research. · Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology

• 2026Open Access2 citations

  Severe and widespread coral reef damage during the 2014-2017 Global Coral Bleaching Event

  Nature Communications · University of Seychelles

• 20262 citations

  Bending back the curve of shark and ray biodiversity loss

  Nature Reviews Biodiversity · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

• 20262 citations

  An operational machine learning framework for calibrating COSMIC radio occultation TEC to ground-based GNSS-derived TEC

  Advances in Space Research · Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology

• 20262 citations

  Scimitar-crested <i>Spinosaurus</i> species from the Sahara caps stepwise spinosaurid radiation

  Science · Université Abdou Moumouni

• 20262 citations

  Heat flow and conductivity mapping from the Gulf of Gabes to the Gulf of Hammamet, Eastern Tunisia (Southern Mediterranean Sea): a review

  Acta Geophysica · Tunis El Manar University