Sources
Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
Submit a site - Become an editor
Wikipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Are you an expert in this subject? Join the discussion and share your knowledge at Wikipedia.org.
Academic Ranking of World Universities
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Academic Ranking of World Universities[1] is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Institute of Higher Education and includes major institutes of higher education ranked according to a formula that took into account alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (10 percent), staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (20 percent), "highly-cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories" (20 percent), articles published in Nature and Science (20 percent), the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (20 percent) and the size of the institution (10 percent). The results have been cited by The Economist magazine [2].
The methodology is set out in an academic article by its originators, C.C. Liu and Y. Cheng[3]. Liu and Cheng explain that the original purpose of doing the ranking was "to find out the gap between Chinese universities and world-class universities, particularly in terms of academic or research performance."[4]
- ^ Academic Ranking of World Universities, Accessed August 2007
- ^ The brains business, The Economist, Sep 8th 2005[1]
- ^ N.C. Liu and Y Cheng "Academic ranking of world universities - methodologies and problems", Higher Education in Europe, Vol. 30, No 2., 2005 and earlier in the proceedings of Meeting of the International Rankings Expert Group 2004.
- ^ N.C. Liu and Y Cheng "Academic ranking of world universities: FAQ",[2], 2006, Accessed 2 August 2007