Three of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals account for 43% of all SDG-mapped research output published between 2022 and 2024.
Three of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals account for 43% of all SDG-mapped research output published between 2022 and 2024. Good Health and Well-being alone takes 23%. Climate Action sits 14th of 17, at 3.1% — behind Life Below Water and Life on Land.
That matters when you are benchmarked on SDG volume. The classification base is overwhelmingly health, energy and education research, so a climate-led institution can look thin next to a medical school without producing less. Worth knowing which denominator your ranking submission is competing in.
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In 2024, four of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals absorbed 52% of all SDG-linked university research output.
In 2024, four of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals absorbed 52% of all SDG-linked university research output. Good Health alone took 20% — nearly four times the combined output of No Poverty, Partnerships and Responsible Consumption.
For a research office, this is the gap between an SDG portfolio and an SDG strategy. Most SDG profiles are a by-product of where medical and agricultural strength already sits, rather than a deliberate choice. The thinnest-covered goals are also where a mid-sized university can still be visible.
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Only 39% of research carries a funder acknowledgement
Only 39% of university research published in 2024 carries a funder acknowledgement in its metadata. The other 5.5 million outputs name no funder at all, and that share has not moved since 2021.
The gap is national rather than disciplinary: Korean and Chinese universities record a funder on about 61% of output, the UK 49%, the US 44%, India 17%, Indonesia 6%. If your funded-output reporting rests on this metadata, you are undercounting your own grant returns, and any international benchmark is partly measuring acknowledgement practice rather than funding.
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Across 2024, 35% of university Arts and Humanities output carries a January or December publication date.
Across 2024, 35% of university Arts and Humanities output carries a January or December publication date. In Health Sciences it is 22%. An even spread would put both near 17%.
That gap is metadata convention, not a year-end rush: year-only and issue-only dates default to the year boundary, and humanities journals use them far more. If your office runs a census date or annual return off publication date, you are mis-timing humanities output against STEM.
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Danielle SwanepoelExecutive Director of International Relations and Strategic Initiatives
Kunnikar KanatharanaStrategic Advisor - University Rankings