Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities explained

The Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities (NTU Rankings)^[1] is a ranking of world universities compiled by National Taiwan University annually since 2012.^[2]

This publication ranks world universities by a certain criteria of scientific paper volume, impact, and performance output. The ranking was originally published from 2007 to 2011 by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan^[3] and has been published since 2012 by the National Taiwan University. It uses bibliometric methods to analyze and rank the scientific paper performance. In addition to the overall ranking, it includes a list of the top universities in six fields and fourteen subjects.^{[4] [5]}

The rankings were introduced in 2007. The original ranking methodology favored toward universities with medical schools. In 2008, HEEACT began publishing a "Field Based Ranking" including six fields: agriculture and environmental sciences (AGE), clinical medicine (MED), engineering, computing, and technology (ENG), life sciences (LIFE), natural sciences (SCI), and social sciences (SOC).^[6]

In 2010, HEEACT began publishing subject rankings in fields of various field of science and technology. Science fields are divided into physics, chemistry, mathematics, and geosciences. Technology fields are split up into electrical engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering (including energy and fuels), materials science, and civil engineering (including environmental engineering).

HEEACT ended the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities Project in 2012. Due to disagreement about ranking results, the Taiwanese education authorities announced that the government would no longer support the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan to do this ranking.^[7]

Methodology

The HEEACT rankings used the following criteria:

• Research productivity (weighed 20%)—The number of published articles of the last 11 years (10%) and the number of articles of the current year (10%).
• Research impact (weighed 30%)—Number of citations of the last 11 years (10%), the number of citations of the last two years (10%), and the average number of citations of the last 11 years (10%).
• Research excellence (weighed 40%)—The h-index of the last two years (20%), the number of highly cited papers (15%), and the number of articles of the current year in high-impact journals (15%).

Quantitative data were drawn from Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). The data were normalized by faculty number to account for different institution sizes. The indicators used in this methodology highly emphasized research quality (80% of the performance score) and short-term research performance (55% of the score).

The current NTU rankings use the following criteria:^[8]

• Research productivity (weighed 25%)—The number of published articles of the last 11 years (10%) and the number of articles of the current year (15%).
• Research impact (weighed 35%)—Number of citations of the last 11 years (15%), the number of citations of the last two years (10%), and the average number of citations of the last 11 years (10%).
• Research excellence (weighed 40%)—The h-index of the last two years (10%), the number of highly cited papers (15%), and the number of articles of the current year in high-impact journals (15%).

HEEACT World University Rankings (Top 50)

2010	2009	2008	2007	Institution	Country
1	1	1	1	Harvard University	United States
2	3	3	4	Stanford University	United States
3	2	2	2	Johns Hopkins University	United States
4	4	4	3	University of Washington	United States
5	5	5	5	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
6	8	6	7	University of California, Berkeley	United States
7	7	7	10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
8	6	7	6	University of Michigan	United States
9	11	14	12	University of Toronto	Canada
10	17	19	19	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
11	9	11	11	University of Pennsylvania	United States
12	13	10	8	University of California, San Diego	United States
13	10	13	9	Columbia University	United States
14	14	12	13	University of Tokyo	Japan
15	12	9	15	University of California, San Francisco	United States
16	15	16	17	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
17	20	20	24	University College London	United Kingdom
18	16	15	14	Yale University	United States
19	18	17	16	Duke University	United States
20	25	21	20	University of Wisconsin–Madison	United States
21	22	27	28	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
22	19	18	18	Cornell University	United States
23	24	22	21	University of Pittsburgh	United States
24	21	23	22	University of Minnesota	United States
25	23	26	25	Washington University in St. Louis	United States
26	27	25	23	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
27	26	30	29	Northwestern University	United States
28	28	28	27	Kyoto University	Japan
29	32	32	35	University of California, Davis	United States
30	29	24	26	University of Chicago	United States
31	30	31	32	California Institute of Technology	United States
32	31	33	39	University of British Columbia	Canada
33	33	35	30	Ohio State University	United States
34	34	36	50	Karolinska Institutet	Sweden
35	36	34	36	McGill University	Canada
36	46	44	41	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign	United States
37	43	45	54	Emory University	United States
38	35	38	40	Osaka University	Japan
39	38	42	48	Princeton University	United States
40	47	43	44	University of Florida	United States
41	44	52	33	University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	United States
42	40	29	31	Pennsylvania State University	United States
43	51	58	64	University of Melbourne	Australia
44	42	47	46	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	Germany
45	45	41	43	New York University	United States
46	48	63	37	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine	United States
47	48	50	52	University of Helsinki	Finland
48	57	46	45	Vanderbilt University	United States
49	56	53	56	Utrecht University	Netherlands
49	40	37	38	University of Arizona	United States

HEEACT World University Rankings (Top 20 by field)

Agriculture & Environment Sciences

2010	2009	2008	University	Country
01	01	01	University of California- Davis	US
02	02	02	Wageningen University	Netherlands
03	03	03	Cornell University	US
04	04	04	University of California- Berkeley	US
05	05	05	University of Wisconsin- Madison	US
06	06	06	University of Florida	US
07	08	09	Michigan State University	US
08	07	08	University of Minnesota- Twin Cities	US
09	10	11	Harvard University	US
10	15	19	Ghent University	Belgium
11	11	14	Oregon State University	US
12	14	10	The University of British Columbia	Canada
13	12	13	Duke University	US
14	09	07	University of Georgia	US
15	13	48	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
16	19	17	The University of Tokyo	Japan
17	20	20	University of Arizona	US
18	16	16	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Sweden
19	17	15	University of Helsinki	Finland
20	18	18	University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign	US

Clinical Medicine

2010	2009	2008	University	Country
01	01	01	Harvard University	US
02	02	02	Johns Hopkins University	US
03	03	03	University of California- San Francisco	US
04	05	04	University of California- Los Angeles	US
05	06	12	University of Toronto	Canada
06	07	05	University of Washington- Seattle	US
07	04	07	University of Pennsylvania	US
08	08	06	University of Pittsburgh- Pittsburgh	US
09	12	10	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine	US
10	11	08	Duke University	US
11	10	09	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	US
12	9	11	Columbia University	US
13	13	13	Stanford University	US
14	15	14	University College London	United Kingdom
15	14	16	The University of Texas- M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	US
16	17	15	Karolinska Institutet	Sweden
17	16	19	University of California- San Diego	US
18	19	18	University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill	US
19	18	17	Yale University	US
20	20	20	Washington University in St. Louis	US

Engineering, Computing & Technology

2010	2009	2008	University	Country
01	01	02	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
02	02	01	University of California- Berkeley	US
03	06	05	Tsinghua University	China
04	04	03	National University of Singapore	Singapore
05	05	04	Stanford University	US
06	03	06	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
07	10	14	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
08	07	08	University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign	US
09	08	10	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	US
10	12	11	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
11	09	07	Pennsylvania State University- University Park	US
12	17	21	Seoul National University	South Korea
13	13	13	Harvard University	US
14	14	12	The University of Tokyo	Japan
15	11	09	Tohoku University	Japan
16	19	15	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
17	18	23	Northwestern University	US
18	15	16	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich	Switzerland
19	30	41	National Cheng Kung University	ROC(Taiwan)
20	24	38	Zhejiang University	China

Life Sciences

2010	2009	2008	University	Country
01	01	01	Harvard University	US
02	02	02	Johns Hopkins University	US
03	03	03	University of California- San Francisco	US
04	06	06	University of California- San Diego	US
05	04	04	Stanford University	US
06	08	11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
07	12	12	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
08	09	07	University of Washington- Seattle	US
09	07	05	Yale University	US
10	10	10	University College London	United Kingdom
11	05	08	University of Pennsylvania	US
12	11	9	University of California- Los Angeles	US
13	13	13	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
14	18	18	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	US
15	16	15	Washington University in St. Louis	US
16	14	16	University of Toronto	Canada
17	17	17	The University of Tokyo	Japan
18	15	14	Columbia University	US
19	19	19	Duke University	US
20	27	35	Imperial College London	United Kingdom

Physical, Chemical

2010	2009	2008	University	Country
01	01	01	University of California- Berkeley	US
02	02	02	The University of Tokyo	Japan
03	03	03	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
04	04	04	California Institute of Technology	US
05	05	05	Harvard University	US
06	06	07	Stanford University	US
07	07	06	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
08	08	08	Princeton University	US
09	12	16	University of California- Los Angeles	US
10	09	12	University of Washington- Seattle	US
11	16	15	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
12	10	9	Kyoto University	Japan
13	11	19	Columbia University	US
14	15	13	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	US
15	14	10	Pennsylvania State University- University Park	US
16	13	17	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich	Switzerland
17	23	21	University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign	US
18	20	23	University of Wisconsin- Madison	US
19	26	32	University of Maryland- College Park	US
20	22	24		France

Social Sciences

2010	2009	2008	University	Country
01	01	01	Harvard University	US
02	02	02	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	US
03	05	05	Columbia University	US
04	03	04	University of Pennsylvania	US
05	04	03	University of California- Los Angeles	US
06	06	08	Stanford University	US
07	07	06	University of Washington- Seattle	US
08	11	12	University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill	US
09	10	09	University of California - Berkeley	US
10	14	13	University of Minnesota- Twin Cities	US
11	08	11	Johns Hopkins University	US
12	09	07	The University of Chicago	US
13	13	14	Yale University	US
14	12	18	Duke University	US
15	28	29	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
16	16	22	University of Toronto	Canada
17	20	10	University of Wisconsin- Madison	US
18	15	17	Northwestern University	US
19	21	23	University of Pittsburgh- Pittsburgh	US
20	23	19	University of California- San Francisco	US

HEEACT World University Rankings (Top 20 by subject)

Physics (includes Astronomy and Space Science)

2010	University	Country
01	University of California- Berkeley	US
02	California Institute of Technology	US
03	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
04	The University of Tokyo	Japan
05	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
06	Princeton University	US
07	Stanford University	US
08	Harvard University	US
09	Pennsylvania State University- University Park	US
10	University of California- Los Angeles	US
11	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
12	Johns Hopkins University	US
13	University of California- Santa Barbara	US
14	University of Maryland- College Park	US
15	University of Paris XI: Sud	France
16	The University of Chicago	US
17	The University of Chicago	US
18	Tohoku University	Japan
19	University of Arizona	US
20	Cornell University	US

Chemistry

2010	University	Country
01	University of California- Berkeley	US
02	The University of Tokyo	Japan
03	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
04	Kyoto University	Japan
05	Northwestern University	US
06	Harvard University	US
07	Osaka University	Japan
08	Stanford University	US
09	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
10	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich	Switzerland
11	Tohoku University	Japan
12	University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign	US
13	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
14	California Institute of Technology	US
15	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Lausanne	Switzerland
16	Tsinghua University	China
17	Peking University	China
18	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	US
19	University of California- Los Angeles	US
20	Seoul National University	South Korea

Mathematics

2010	University	Country
01	Stanford University	US
02	University of California- Berkeley	US
03	Harvard University	US
04	Princeton University	US
05	University of California- Los Angeles	US
06	University of Minnesota- Twin Cities	US
07	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	US
08	University of Washington- Seattle	US
09		France
10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
11	National University of Singapore	Singapore
12	University of Wisconsin- Madison	US
13	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
14	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
15	The University of Chicago	US
16	University of Paris XI: Sud	France
17	New York University	US
18	Texas A&M University- College Station	US
19	California Institute of Technology	US
20	Columbia University	US

Geosciences

2010	University	Country
01	University of Colorado- Boulder	US
02	University of Washington- Seattle	US
03	California Institute of Technology	US
04	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich	Switzerland
05	University of California- Berkeley	US
06	Columbia University	US
07	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
08	University of California- San Diego	US
09	University of Hawaii	US
10	Harvard University	US
11	The University of Tokyo	Japan
12	University of Maryland- College Park	US
13	University of Arizona	US
14	University of Wisconsin- Madison	US
15	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
16	Colorado State University	US
17		France
18	The Australian National University	Australia
19	University of California- Los Angeles	US
20	University of Oxford	United Kingdom

Electrical Engineering

2010	University	Country
01	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
02	University of California- Berkeley	US
03	National University of Singapore	Singapore
04	Stanford University	US
05	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
06	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
07	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	US
08	University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign	US
09	University of California- Los Angeles	US
10	Tsinghua University	China
11	Harvard University	US
12	National Cheng Kung University	ROC(Taiwan)
13	University of California- San Diego	US
14	California Institute of Technology	US
15	Purdue University- West Lafayette	US
16	National Taiwan University	ROC(Taiwan)
17	National Chiao Tung University	ROC(Taiwan)
18	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich	Switzerland
19	University of Toronto	Canada
20	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong

Computer Science

2010	University	Country
01	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
02	Stanford University	US
03	University of California- Berkeley	US
04	Harvard University	US
05	University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign	US
06	National University of Singapore	Singapore
07	Carnegie Mellon University	US
08	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
09	Princeton University	US
10	University of California- San Diego	US
11	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich	Switzerland
12	Technion- Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
13	University of Southern California	US
14	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
15	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
16	Tsinghua University	China
17	University of California- Los Angeles	US
18	University of Maryland- College Park	US
19	National Cheng Kung University	ROC(Taiwan)
20	University of Minnesota- Twin Cities	US

Civil Engineering (including Environmental Engineering)

2010	University	Country
01	University of California- Berkeley	US
02	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich	Switzerland
03	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
04	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
05	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
06	University of California- Davis	US
07	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
08	University of Queensland	Australia
09	University of Toronto	Canada
10	National Taiwan University	ROC(Taiwan)
11	Tsinghua University	China
12	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
13	Zhejiang University	China
14	Stanford University	US
15	National Cheng Kung University	ROC(Taiwan)
16	Texas A&M University- College Station	US
17	Pennsylvania State University- University Park	US
18	University of Waterloo	Canada
19	Arizona State University	US
20	The University of Texas- Austin	US

Mechanical Engineering

2010	University	Country
01	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
02	Stanford University	US
03	University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign	US
04	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	US
05	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
06	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
07	University of California- Berkeley	US
08	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
09	Cornell University	US
10	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
11	Tsinghua University	China
12	Princeton University	US
13	National University of Singapore	Singapore
14	Purdue University- West Lafayette	US
15	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
16	California Institute of Technology	US
17	Seoul National University	South Korea
18	Northwestern University	US
19	Harvard University	US
20	Pennsylvania State University- University Park	US

Chemical Engineering (including Energy & Fuels)

2010	University	Country
01	Kyoto University	Japan
02	Pennsylvania State University- University Park	US
03	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
04	National University of Singapore	Singapore
05	The University of New South Wales	Australia
06	Seoul National University	South Korea
07	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
08	Tsinghua University	China
09	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
10	Zhejiang University	China
11	Carnegie Mellon University	US
12	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
13	University of Science and Technology of China	China
14	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
15	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich	Switzerland
16	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
17	National Taiwan University	ROC(Taiwan)
18	Tianjin University	China
19	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea
20	The University of Texas- Austin	US

Materials Science

2010	University	Country
01	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
02	Tohoku University	Japan
03	National University of Singapore	Singapore
04	University of California- Berkeley	US
05	Tsinghua University	China
06	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
07	Northwestern University	US
08	Seoul National University	South Korea
09	Harvard University	US
10	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
11	University of California- Santa Barbara	US
12	Pennsylvania State University- University Park	US
13	The University of Tokyo	Japan
14	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
15	Stanford University	US
16	University of Washington- Seattle	US
17	Osaka University	Japan
18	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	US
19	University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign	US
20	Imperial College London	United Kingdom

Commentary

The Australian higher education indicated that the 2007 performance ranking of scientific papers for world universities produced by HEEACT is a useful addition to the present world university ranks because of its rigorous method and robust results, which are made possible by its more modest scope.^[9] There are more comments on the HEEACT rankings. The senior research fellow of Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Wu Yi-shan, claimed that the HEEACT ranking is the best ranking system he has ever seen. Wu indicated that the HEEACT ranking considers both long-term and short-term performance of a university. The idea of combining long-term and short-term ranking indicators is a pioneering thought.^[10] Richard Holmes posted on University Ranking Watch and noted: "Although the Shanghai rankings show a high correlation with other rankings (based on a tiny sample of US universities) the HEEACT rankings from Taiwan do somewhat better."^[11] Vice-president Research for the University of Toronto, Professor Paul Young, remarked that "the HEEACT rankings are relatively new, they are an important and methodologically robust measure of the quantity and quality of research performed by universities around the world."^[12] The dean of academic affairs at National Taiwan University, Chiang Been-Huang, stated that "2009 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities by HEEACT are conducted based on objective figures."^[13]

See also

• College and university rankings
• Academic Ranking of World Universities
• Times Higher Education World University Rankings
• QS World University Rankings
• Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
• Global University Ranking

Notes and References

1. Web site: NTU Rankings. NTU Ranking. National Taiwan University. 17 February 2024.
2. Web site: Introduction. NTU Ranking. National Taiwan University. 17 February 2024.
3. Web site: 財團法人高等教育評鑑中心基金會 . 2010-09-27 . 2011-06-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110612043842/http://www.heeact.edu.tw/mp.asp?mp=2 . dead .
4. Web site: Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities . ranking.heeact.edu.tw . 6 June 2022 . https://archive.today/20120714194718/http://ranking.heeact.edu.tw/en-us/2010%20by%20Subject/Page/Background . 14 July 2012 . dead.
5. Web site: Introduction. NTU Ranking. National Taiwan University. 17 February 2024.
6. Web site: Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities . ranking.heeact.edu.tw . 6 June 2022 . https://archive.today/20120716070209/http://ranking.heeact.edu.tw/en-us/2010%20by%20field/page/methodology . 16 July 2012 . dead.
7. http://mag.udn.com/mag/campus/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=341661 Taiwan refuse to continue supporting the HEEACT ranking
8. Web site: Indicators. NTU Ranking. National Taiwan University. 17 February 2024.
9. Moodie, G. (2008), Taiwan addition sums up science rank.(Retrieved Aug 6, 2009)
10. Web site: 科学网—全世界学术期刊界共同的怪现状 - 武夷山的博文 .
11. Holmes, R. (2009),Is There a q Factor in University Ranking?(Retrieved Aug 5, 2009)
12. Stephens, L. (2009),UofT first in Canada in international rankings for research.(Retrieved Aug 5, 2009)
13. Kao, Y.L. (2009),NTU ranks 26th in Webometrics Ranking of World Universities(Retrieved Aug 5, 2009)