| ARWU (Academic Ranking of World Universities) |
| Q1 - The number of influential journal publications is an important measure of the research output of the universities in the corresponding subject. Q1 is the number of papers published by an institution in an Academic Subject in journals with Q1 Journal Impact Factor Quartile over five years. Data sources are Web of Science and InCites.IC – International collaboration is an indicator used to evaluate the level of international collaboration in the respective subject between institutions. The ratio of the number of publications that have been found with at least two different countries in addresses of the authors to the total number of publications in the respective subject for an institution over five years. The data source is InCites.CNCI – Category Normalized Citation Impact is the ratio of citations of papers published to the average citations of papers in the same category, the same year and same type of journal publication, by an institution in an Academic Subject over five years. A CNCI value of 1 represents world-average performance. The data source is InCites.Top is the number of papers published in Top Journals in an Academic Subject for an institution over five years. Top Journals are nominated by distinguished scholars through Shanghai Ranking’s Academic Excellence Survey.AWARD –the total number of staff of an institution who has won a significant award in a particular subject area since 1981. It is measured based on the Academic Survey of experts from the field of higher education. |
| QS World University Rankings |
| Academic reputation is a weighting metric of 40%. It is measured based on the Academic Survey of experts from the field of higher education regarding teaching and research quality at the world’s universities.Employer reputation is 10%. The Employer Reputation metric is based on the Employer Survey to identify those institutions from which they source the most competent, innovative, and effective graduates.Faculty/Student Ratio is 20%. Measuring teacher/student ratios is the most effective proxy metric for teaching quality.International faculty ratio/International student ratio is 5% each.International student ratio is 5%.Citations per faculty is 20%. The institutional research quality is measured using Citations per Faculty metric. It is a ratio of the total number of citations received by all papers produced by an institution over five years by the number of faculty members at that institution |
| The Times Higher Education |
| Teaching (the learning environment) is 30%. This metric includes reputation survey: 15%, Staff-to-student ratio: 4.5%, Doctorate-to-bachelor’s ratio: 2.25%, Doctorates-awarded- to-academic-staff ratio: 6%, Institutional income: 2.25%.Research (volume, income and reputation) is 30%. This metric includes Reputation survey: 18%, Research income: 6%, Research productivity: 6%.Citations (research influence) is 30%. This metric includes the quality of research and citation volume of research (the ratio of average citation of university publications per average citation in the world)International outlook (staff, students, research) is 7.5%. This metric includes International-to-domestic-student ratio: 2.5%, International-to-domestic-staff ratio: 2.5%. The proportion of a university’s total research journal publications that have at least one international co-author and reward higher volumes. This indicator uses the same five-year window. Foreigners-students - citizens of the country ratio- 2.5%.Industry income (knowledge transfer) is 2.5%. – This category seeks to capture such knowledge-transfer activity by looking at how much research income an institution earns from industry, scaled against the number of academic staff it employs. |
