Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities


The Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities or NTU Ranking is a ranking system of world universities by scientific paper volume, impact, and performance output. The ranking was originally published from 2007–2011 by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan 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.
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, clinical medicine, engineering, computing, and technology, life sciences, natural sciences, and social sciences.
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, materials science, and civil 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.
The Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities has been published by the National Taiwan University since 2012, and the ranking is also known as the NTU Ranking.

Methodology

The HEEACT rankings used the following criteria:
Quantitative data were drawn from Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index. The data were normalized by faculty number to account for different institution sizes. The indicators used in this methodology highly emphasized research quality and short-term research performance.

HEEACT World University Rankings (Top 50)

2010200920082007InstitutionCountry
1111Harvard UniversityUnited States
2334Stanford UniversityUnited States
3222Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States
4443University of WashingtonUnited States
5555University of California, Los AngelesUnited States
6867University of California, BerkeleyUnited States
77710Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States
8676University of MichiganUnited States
9111412University of TorontoCanada
10171919University of OxfordUnited Kingdom
1191111University of PennsylvaniaUnited States
1213108University of California, San DiegoUnited States
1310139Columbia UniversityUnited States
14141213University of TokyoJapan
1512915University of California, San FranciscoUnited States
16151617University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom
17202024University College LondonUnited Kingdom
18161514Yale UniversityUnited States
19181716Duke UniversityUnited States
20252120University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States
21222728Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom
22191818Cornell UniversityUnited States
23242221University of PittsburghUnited States
24212322University of MinnesotaUnited States
25232625Washington University in St. LouisUnited States
26272523University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States
27263029Northwestern UniversityUnited States
28282827Kyoto UniversityJapan
29323235University of California, DavisUnited States
30292426University of ChicagoUnited States
31303132California Institute of TechnologyUnited States
32313339University of British ColumbiaCanada
33333530Ohio State UniversityUnited States
34343650Karolinska InstitutetSweden
35363436McGill UniversityCanada
36464441University of Illinois at Urbana–ChampaignUnited States
37434554Emory UniversityUnited States
38353840Osaka UniversityJapan
39384248Princeton UniversityUnited States
40474344University of FloridaUnited States
41445233University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States
42402931Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States
43515864University of MelbourneAustralia
44424746Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichGermany
45454143New York UniversityUnited States
46486337Mayo Clinic College of MedicineUnited States
47485052University of HelsinkiFinland
48574645Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States
49565356Utrecht UniversityNetherlands
49403738University of ArizonaUnited States

HEEACT World University Rankings (Top 20 by field)

Agriculture & Environment Sciences

Clinical Medicine

Engineering, Computing & Technology

Life Sciences

Physical, Chemical

Social Sciences

HEEACT World University Rankings (Top 20 by subject)

Physics (includes Astronomy and Space Science)

Chemistry

Mathematics

Geosciences

Electrical Engineering

Computer Science

Civil Engineering (including Environmental Engineering)

Mechanical Engineering

Chemical Engineering (including Energy & Fuels)

Materials Science

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. 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. Richard Holmes posted on University Ranking Watch and noted: "Although the Shanghai rankings show a high correlation with other rankings the HEEACT rankings from Taiwan do somewhat better." 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." 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."