UAB moves up in the Taiwan ranking and continues among the world's top 200

The UAB occupies position 157 globally in the NTU Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities 2013, published by the National Taiwan University (NTU). This results represents that the UAB moves up 12 positions in comparison with last year's ranking.

14/10/2014

The NTU Ranking was first conducted by the National Taiwan University in 2011 and is the continuation of the ranking which since 2007 had been carried out by the Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEAACT). This is the 4th edition in its current format. The ranking takes into consideration the publications of over 4,000 research institutes, among which are 903 universities.

In the classifications by subjects, the UAB ranks first in Spain in Animal and Plant Sciences (ranking 69th in the world), is among the top 100 in Mathematics (92) and among the top 200 in Agricultural Sciences (140), Civil Engineering (176), Chemistry (182), Environmental Sciences (108), Physics (130) and Pharmacology (164).

With regard to the science fields, the UAB occupies position 81 globally and is the second top university in Spain in Agricultural Sciences. It is also among to top 200 in Medicine, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences.

Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University, all three American universities, are at the head of the ranking in productivity. In Europe, the top positions go to the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and the University College London, UK. In Spain, the ranking is led by the University of Barcelona, followed by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the University of Valencia.

The ranking classifies the top institutions according to the number of articles published and number of citations. The data is taken from the ISI, Web of Science (WOS). This edition's results are based on the comparison of eight indicators representing three criteria: productivity, according to the number of articles; impact, according to the number of citations; and excellence, according to the h-index, the number of repeatedly cited articles and the number of articles published in high impact journals.