Tuesday, November 04, 2014

The Taiwan (NTU) Rankings

These rankings are entirely research based and make no attempt to measure teaching quality. They also have a very strong bias against the humanities and social sciences: the London School of Economics and the Stockholm School of Economics do not appear at all.

They tend to reward size rather than quality so that Johns Hopkins is in 2nd place and Caltech 36th. The emphasis on citations gives a boost to medical schools like the University of California San Francisco and Rockefeller University.

The results, with these limitations, are quite reasonable.


Publisher

National Taiwan University



Scope

Global. Data provided for 500 universities. 903 ranked.selected from Essential Science Indicators and other rankings.

Indicators

Number of articles 2003-13: 10%
Number of articles 2013: 15%
Number of citations 2003-13: 15%
Number of citations 2012-13:10%
Average number of citations 2003-13: 10%
h-index 2012-13: 10%
Number of highly cited papers 2003-13: 15%
Number of articles in high-impact journals 2012: 15%


Top Ten (total score)


PlaceUniversity
1Harvard University
2Johns Hopkins University
3Stanford University
4University of Toronto
5University of Washington Seattle
6University of California Los Angeles                   
7University of Michigan Ann Arbor   
8=University of California Berkeley
8=Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8=University of Oxford



Countries with Universities in the Top Hundred


Country      Number of Universities  
USA45
UK8
Netherlands   7
Germany                                     5
Canada5
Australia4
China4
Sweden3
Japan3
France2
Belgium2
Denmark2
Switzerland2
Singapore1
Spain1
Italy1
Finland1
Brazil1
Taiwan1
Norway1
South Korea1



Top Ranked in Region (Total Score)


North America 
Harvard
AfricaUniversity of Cape Town
EuropeOxford University
Latin AmericaUniversidade de Sao Paulo                                    
AsiaUniversity of Tokyo                                 
Central and Eastern Europe  Charles University in Prague                                 
Arab WorldKing Abdulaziz University                                 
Middle EastTel Aviv University                              
OceaniaUniversity of Melbourne                              



Noise Index

In the top 20, the NTU rankings are more volatile than the THE world rankings but less so than QS, with the average university moving up or down 1.2 places since last year.

RankingAverage Place Change
 of Universities in the top 20 
NTU rankings 2013-141.20
THE World rankings 2013-140.70
QS World Rankings 2013-20141.45
ARWU 2013 -2014 0.65
Webometrics 2013-20144.25
Center for World University Ranking (Jeddah)
2013-2014 
0.90


Looking at the top 100 universities, the  NTU rankings are very volatile, since several of the indicators cover a one or two year period. The average university has changed 7.3 places over the year.

RankingAverage Place Change
 of Universities in the top 100 
NTU rankings 2013-147.30
THE World Rankings 2013-20144.34
QS World Rankings 2013-143.94
QS World Rankings 2013-143.94
ARWU 2013 -2014 4.92
Webometrics 2013-201412.08
Center for World University Ranking (Jeddah)
2013-2014 
10.59


Note: universities falling out of the top 100 are treated as though they fell to 101st position.


Methodology

See here

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