Sokoine University of Agriculture is making remarkable success in Scientific Research and contributions to scientific development.
The institution makes feasible inputs in research by providing robust and tangible evidence in delivering scientific material.
It offers opportunity of additional information to the research problems under investigation in real world. The scientific knowledge developed can find answers to things that are unknown, filling gaps in facts to other research and changing the way that professionals work.
The Institutional integrity and staff competence in delivering the quality scientific information made it to be most cited in Tanzania.
Based on the above facts, SUA ranked the first in Citations (https://www.webometrics.info/en/transparent) among the Tanzanian Universities for the period ending July 2020, with a total of 82,220 citations.
The Table below shows the ranking of citations of some Universities in Tanzania as released on 29th July 2020.
| Institutions | Citations | Positions world wide | Positions in Tanzania |
| Sokoine University of Agriculture | 82,220 | 1,161 | 1 |
| University of Dar Es Salaam | 44,648 | 1,474 | 2 |
| Nelson Mandela Institute of Science and Technology | 5,933 | 2,726 | 3 |
| Muhimbili University of Health and allied Sciences | 3,054 | 3,148 | 4 |
