The Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities (NTU Rankings) is a ranking of world universities compiled by National Taiwan University annually since 2012.
This publication ranks world universities by a certain criteria of scientific paper volume, impact, and performance output. The ranking was originally published from 2007 to 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 (AGE), clinical medicine (MED), engineering, computing, and technology (ENG), life sciences (LIFE), natural sciences (SCI), and social sciences (SOC).
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 (including energy and fuels), materials science, and civil engineering (including environmental 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.Taiwan refuse to continue supporting the HEEACT ranking
Methodology The HEEACT rankings used the following criteria: Research productivity (weighed 20%)—The number of published articles of the last 11 years (10%) and the number of articles of the current year (10%). Research impact (weighed 30%)—Number of citations of the last 11 years (10%), the number of citations of the last two years (10%), and the average number of citations of the last 11 years (10%). Research excellence (weighed 40%)—The h-index of the last two years (20%), the number of highly cited papers (15%), and the number of articles of the current year in high-impact journals (15%).
Quantitative data were drawn from Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). The data were normalized by faculty number to account for different institution sizes. The indicators used in this methodology highly emphasized research quality (80% of the performance score) and short-term research performance (55% of the score).
The current NTU rankings use the following criteria: Research productivity (weighed 25%)—The number of published articles of the last 11 years (10%) and the number of articles of the current year (15%). Research impact (weighed 35%)—Number of citations of the last 11 years (15%), the number of citations of the last two years (10%), and the average number of citations of the last 11 years (10%). Research excellence (weighed 40%)—The h-index of the last two years (10%), the number of highly cited papers (15%), and the number of articles of the current year in high-impact journals (15%).
HEEACT World University Rankings (Top 50)
20242020 2010 Institution Country11 1 Harvard University 22 2 Stanford University 35 17 University College London 43 9 University of Toronto 56 10 University of Oxford 64 3 Johns Hopkins University 717114Tsinghua University830145Zhejiang University911 16 University of Cambridge 108 7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 118 4 University of Washington 1225183Shanghai Jiao Tong University139 8 University of Michigan 1414 21 Imperial College London 1542Paris Cité University1610 11 University of Pennsylvania 1713 13 Columbia University 1829124Peking University1912 5 University of California, Los Angeles 2019 18 Yale University 213884National University of Singapore2218 12 University of California, San Diego 2315 15 University of California, San Francisco 2423 43 University of Melbourne 252157ETH Zurich2628 22 Cornell University 273169University of Sydney282253University of Copenhagen296364University of Amsterdam3016 6 University of California, Berkeley 31Paris-Saclay University3256332Sun Yat-sen University3345130Monash University3420 19 Duke University 3526Sorbonne University3627 27 Northwestern University 3733 32 University of British Columbia 3867473Huazhong University of Science and Technology3962230Fudan University403995University of Queensland4151145University of New South Wales4240 46 Mayo Clinic College of Medicine 434455King's College London4459204University of Science and Technology of China4532 25 Washington University in St. Louis 4637 14 University of Tokyo 476877KU Leuven4834 23 University of Pittsburgh 4953243Nanyang Technological University5088565Central South University
HEEACT World University Rankings (Top 20 by field) Agriculture 2024 University Country 01 Wageningen University Netherlands 02 China Agricultural University China 03 ETH Zurich Switzerland 04 Zhejiang University China 05 Northwest A&F University China 06 University of Queensland Australia 07 University of California- Davis US 08 University of Florida US 09 University of São Paulo Brazil 10 Cornell University US 11 Nanjing Agricultural University China 12 Tsinghua University China 13 University of Montpellier France 14 Ghent University Belgium 15 University of Copenhagen Denmark 16 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Sweden 17 The University of British Columbia Canada 18 Peking University China 19 University of Western Australia Australia 20 University of California- Berkeley US
Clinical Medicine 2024 University Country 01 Harvard University US 02 University of Toronto Canada 03 Johns Hopkins University US 04 University College London United Kingdom 05 University of Pennsylvania US 06 Mayo Clinic College of Medicine US 07 University of California- San Francisco US 08 Stanford University US 09 Paris Cité University France 10 University of Washington- Seattle US 11 University of Oxford United Kingdom 12 University of Michigan- Ann Arbor US 13 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 14 Yale University US 15 Imperial College London United Kingdom 16 Duke University US 17 King's College London United Kingdom 18 Columbia University US 19 University of California- Los Angeles US 20 Karolinska Institutet Sweden
Engineering 2024 University Country 01 Tsinghua University China 02 Zhejiang University China 03 Harbin Institute of Technology China 04 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 05 Nanyang Technological University Singapore 06 Xi'an Jiaotong University China 07 Huazhong University of Science and Technology China 08 University of Science and Technology of China China 09 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 10 Tianjin University China 11 Southeast University China 12 Central South University China 13 South China University of Technology China 14 Northwestern Polytechnical University China 15 Chongqing University China 16 Tongji University China 17 Georgia Institute of Technology US 18 Beijing Institute of Technology China 19 Stanford University US 20 Beijing Institute of Technology China
Life Sciences 2024 University Country 01 Harvard University US 02 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 03 Stanford University US 04 University of Oxford United Kingdom 05 University College London United Kingdom 06 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 07 University of California- San Francisco US 08 Johns Hopkins University US 09 University of Pennsylvania US 10 Zhejiang University China 11 University of California, San Diego US 12 University of Toronto Canada 13 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 14 Paris Cité University France 15 Fudan University China 16 University of Washington, Seattle US 17 University of Copenhagen Denmark 18 Sun Yat-sen University China 19 Yale University US 20 Cornell University US
Natural Sciences 2024 University Country 01 ETH Zurich Switzerland 02 Harvard University US 03 Tsinghua University China 04 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 05 University of California- Berkeley US 06 Stanford University US 07 Paris-Saclay University France 08 California Institute of Technology US 09 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 10 Sorbonne University France 11 University of Science and Technology of China China 12 The University of Tokyo Japan 13 University of Oxford United Kingdom 14 Zhejiang University China 15 Peking University China 16 University College London United Kingdom 17 Paris Cité University France 18 Paris Sciences et Lettres University France 19 National University of Singapore Singapore 20 Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Social Sciences 2024 University Country 01 Harvard University US 02 University College London United Kingdom 03 University of Toronto Canada 04 University of Oxford United Kingdom 05 Stanford University US 06 Columbia University US 07 University of Michigan- Ann Arbor US 08 Johns Hopkins University US 09 Monash University Australia 10 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 11 University of Washington- Seattle US 12 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 13 University of Sydney Australia 14 University of Melbourne Australia 15 University of Pennsylvania US 16 University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill US 17 Yale University US 18 University of Queensland Australia 19 University of California - Berkeley US 20 University of British Columbia Canada
HEEACT World University Rankings (Top 20 by subject) Physics (includes Astronomy and Space Science) 2010 University Country 01 University of California- Berkeley US 02 California Institute of Technology US 03 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 04 The University of Tokyo Japan 05 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 06 Princeton University US 07 Stanford University US 08 Harvard University US 09 Pennsylvania State University- University Park US 10 University of California- Los Angeles US 11 University of Oxford United Kingdom 12 Johns Hopkins University US 13 University of California- Santa Barbara US 14 University of Maryland- College Park US 15 University of Paris XI: Sud France 16 The University of Chicago US 17 The University of Chicago US 18 Tohoku University Japan 19 University of Arizona US 20 Cornell University US
Chemistry 2010 University Country 01 University of California- Berkeley US 02 The University of Tokyo Japan 03 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 04 Kyoto University Japan 05 Northwestern University US 06 Harvard University US 07 Osaka University Japan 08 Stanford University US 09 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 10 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich Switzerland 11 Tohoku University Japan 12 University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign US 13 Georgia Institute of Technology US 14 California Institute of Technology US 15 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Lausanne Switzerland 16 Tsinghua University China 17 Peking University China 18 University of Michigan- Ann Arbor US 19 University of California- Los Angeles US 20 Seoul National University South Korea
Mathematics