Top 500 World Universities
Produced by: Institute of Higher Education, 2005
The Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University has published on
the web the Academic Ranking of World Universities that has attracted wide attentions
worldwide. Institutions are ranked according to their academic or research performance.
Ranking indicators include the alumni and staff winning major international awards, highly
cited researchers in major research fields, articles published in selected top journals,
articles indexed by major citation indexes, and performance per capita. Methodological
problems discussed include quantitative versus qualitative evaluation, evaluation of
research versus education, variety of institutions, language of publications, selection of
awards, and studying or working experience of award winners. Technical problems such as
definition of institutions, name expression of institutions, merging and splitting of
institutions, searching and attribution of publications are discussed.
Friday, December 02, 2005
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