General information on ranking

Name of the ranking URAP University Ranking by Academic Performance
Geographical scope Global
Status of the ranking independent
Name of person in charge of ranking Ural Akbulut
E-mail of person in charge of ranking info@urapcenter.org
Website of the ranking https://urapcenter.org/Rankings/2023-2024/World_Ra...
Publication frequency annual
First year of publication 2010
Most recent year of publication 2023
Date of last update 2024-05-05
Ranking organization University Ranking by Academic Performance
Website of the methodology https://urapcenter.org/Methodology
Methodology

The URAP University Ranking by Academic Performance is based on 6 academic performance indicators, namely articles published in the last year, citations accrued in the past 5 years, total documents published in the past 5 years, articles published with international co-authors, article impact total and citation impact total. Since URAP Ranking is an academic performance based ranking, publications constitute the basis of the ranking methodology. URAP Ranking gathers bibliometric data about 3,500 Higher Education Institutes (HEI) through Clarivate Incites. A detailed description of each indicator is provided below:

Article (21%) - It is a measure of current scientific productivity which includes articles published in journals that are listed within the first, second and third quartiles in terms of their Journal Impact Factor. 

Citation (21%) - It is a measure of research impact and scored according to the total number of citations received in 2018-2022 for the total documents published in 2018-2022 in journals that include more than 1000 authors are excluded. 

Total Document (10%) – It is the measure of sustainability and continuity of scientific productivity and presented by the total document count which covers all scholarly output of the institutions, including conference papers, reviews, letters, discussions, scripts in addition to journal articles published during 2018-2022 period. The total document counts are not subjected to any filtering.

Article Impact Total AIT (18%) - It is a measure of scientific productivity corrected by the institution's normalized CPP(1) with respect to the world CPP in 24 subject areas between 2018 and 2022. The ratio of the institution's CPP and the world CPP indicates whether the institution is performing above or below the world average in that field. This ratio is multiplied by the number of publications in that field and then summed across the 24 fields. This indicator aims to balance the institution's scientific productivity with the field normalized impact generated by those publications in each field. 

Citation Impact Total CIT (15%) - It is a measure of research impact corrected by the institution's normalized CPP with respect to the world CPP in 24 subject areas between 2018 and 2022. The ratio of the institution's CPP and the world CPP indicates whether the institution is performing above or below the world average in that field. This ratio is multiplied by the number of citations in that field and then summed across the 24 fields. This indicator aims to balance the institution's scientific impact with the field normalized impact generated by the publications in each field.

International Collaboration (15%) - It is a measure of global acceptance of a university. International collaboration data, which is based on the total number of articles published in collaboration with foreign universities, is obtained from InCites for the years 2018-2022. 

Additional information

  • Type of publication: internet
  • Internet users access to ranking: open access
  • Language of publication: English
  • Main target groups: higher education institutions, policymakers, governments and funding agencies, students and parents
  • Level of comparison: institutional: 3000
  • Major dimensions covered: internationalization, research
  • Structure of presentation: ordinary presentation (league tables)
  • Data sources: third-party database (data not provided by HEI)
  • Quality assurance of ranking: advisory board
  • Website of the ranking organization: http://www.urapcenter.org
  • Types of the ranking organization: non-profit research lab established in a university
  • Types of rankings: global