UAB continues amongst top 200 universities worldwide on Taiwan ranking

The UAB is in 165th position in the world on the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, published by National Taiwan University (NTU).

13/10/2015

The UAB ranks 165 in the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities 2015 published by National Taiwan University (NTU). The UAB continues among the 200 best universities worldwide, and as second in Spain, after the UB.

In the ranking by subjects the UAB is the top university in Spain in Animal and Plant Science (68th worldwide), and it performs well in Mathematics (109), Environment/Ecology (111), Agricultural Sciences (137), Pharmacology and Toxicology (166), Physics (174), Electrical Engineering (183), Civil Engineering (192) and Chemical Engineering (192).

By areas of knowledge, its best positions are in Agricultural Sciences (95), Life Sciences (162), Social Sciences (163), Medicine (174) and Natural Sciences (195).

The top universities in the rankings are Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University in the USA, and the University of Toronto in Canada. In Europe, the top universities are the University of Oxford, University College London and the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom. In Spain, the University of Barcelona tops the ranking, followed by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the University of Valencia.

The NTU Ranking was first conducted by National Taiwan University in 2011 and is the continuation of the ranking carried out by the Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEAACT) since 2007. This is the fifth edition in the current format and it takes into account publications from the best 500 universities in the world. The ranking is based on the number of published papers and the number of citations. It uses data from the ISI Web of Science Core Collection (WOS) and Essential Science Indicators (ESI). The 2015 performance measures are composed of eight indicators, which together represent three different criteria of scientific paper performance: research productivity, based on the number of papers; research impact, based on the number of citations; and research excellence, based on the h index, the number of highly cited papers and the number of papers in high-impact journals.