The National Taiwan University rankings, formerly known as the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, have been published exclusively by the National Taiwan University since 2012. They are based on publicly available data for articles and citations.
There are eight indicators in three categories:
- Research Productivity: Articles published in the last eleven years; Articles in the current year (25% weighting) [Note the results table is labelled incorrectly as a two-year period]
- Research Impact: Citations in the last eleven years; Citations in the last two years; Average citations in the last eleven years (35%)
- Research Excellence: h-index of the last two years; Highly cited papers over eleven years; Articles in high impact journals in the current year (40%). Data is derived from the Science Citation Index Enhanced and the Social Science Citation Index in the Web of Science Database.
These rankings are restricted to articles and citations and do not include papers in the arts and humanities. They make no reference to teaching, innovation, or university third missions.
The latest edition, published at the end of July, looks quite familiar. In the overall ranking Harvard comes first, followed by Stanford, University College London, Toronto, and Oxford. The National University of Singapore, Johns Hopkins University, and Imperial College London do relatively better than in the THE and QS world rankings.
However, if we look at the indicator showing the most recent research activity, articles in the previous year, the picture is rather different. Harvard is still top, but then we have the University of Toronto and University College London. Zhejiang University is fourth, King Saud University fifth, Shanghai Jiao Tong University ninth, University of Sao Paulo 11th, and Seoul National University 19th.
It seems that it is this metric that represents the future of higher education.
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NTU Rankings