URAP

University Ranking by

Academic Performance

URAP 2014-2015 RANKING

Prof. Dr. Ural AKBULUT

METU – 12 November 2014

URAP Research Laboratory

• URAP Lab: established at Informatics Institute

of Middle East Technical University in 2009.

• Objective: to rank the world universities

a) Overall ranking

b) Field ranking

based on academic performances.

• The multidisciplinary team.

• Advisory Board (Former University Presidents)

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ADVISORY BOARD

Prof. Dr. Nusret ARAS

Former President of Ankara Univ.

Prof. Dr. Attila AŞKARFormer President of Koç Univ.

Prof. Dr. Engin ATAÇFormer President of Anadolu Univ.

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Prof. Dr. Ülkü BAYINDIRFormer President of Ege Univ.

Prof. Dr. Tunçalp ÖZGENFormer President of Hacettepe Univ.

Prof. Dr. Yaşar SÜTBEYAZFormer President of Atatürk Univ.

TEAM Prof. Dr. Ural AKBULUTURAP Coordinator

Prof. Dr. Nazife BAYKALURAP Associate Coordinator

Prof. Dr. Canan ÇİLİNGİRDept. of Ind. Eng. METU

Prof. Dr. Ayşen AKKAYADept. of Statistics, METU

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sevgi ÖZKANInformatics Institute, METU

Assist. Prof. Dr. Cengiz ACARTÜRKInformatics Institute, METU

Assist Prof. Dr. Murat Perit ÇAKIRInformatics Institute, METU

Dr. Serkan ALKANResearch Coordination Office, METU

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Oğuzhan ALAŞEHİRInformatics Institute, METU

Fatih ÖMRÜUZUNInformatics Institute, METU

Murat KOÇAKInformatics Institute, METU

Pelin CanbazInformatics Institute, METU

Nuray BALTACIInformatics Institute, METU

Buket ARANInformatics Institute, METU

İlker KOÇSociety and Science Center, METU

Çağatay TAŞCIComputer Eng., Çankaya Univ.

METHODOLOGY

RESEARCH TOOLS

• Data Mining

• Bibliometrics

• Scientometrics

• Informetrics

• Statistics

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URAP RANKINGS

• URAP WORLD RANKING

– TOP 2000 for Overall Ranking

– 23 Field Rankings

• URAP TURKISH UNIVERSITIES RANKING

– 127 for Overall Ranking

– 23 Field Rankings

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Aim and Scope

• URAP selected about 2500 universities with

highest number of articles published in 2013.

They were processed and top 2000 of them

are scored.

• The study includes HEIs except for

governmental science academies, research

institutions, and hospitals.

• Objective data obtained from reliable

sources. 7

URAP WORLD RANKING

URAP 2014-2015 World Ranking

• is based on 6 academic performance

indicators,

• publications constitute the basis of the

ranking methodology,

• both quality and quantity of publications

and international research collaboration

performance are used as indicators.

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Indicator Objective Coverage Source

Article

Current Scientific

Productivity

2013 InCites

Citation

Research Impact 2011-2013 InCites

Total Documents

Scientific

Productivity

2011-2013 Web of Sci.

Article Impact

Total

Research Quality 2011-2013 InCites

Citation Impact

Total

Research Quality 2011-2013 InCites

International

Collaboration

International

Acceptance

2011-2013 InCites

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Article: is a measure of current scientific

productivity (includes articles published in 2013

and indexed by Web of Science). Weight of this

indicator on the overall ranking is %21.

Citation: is a measure of research impact and

scored according to the total number of citations

received in 2011-2013 for the articles published in

and indexed by Web of Science. The effect of

citation on the overall ranking is %21.

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Total Documents:

is the measure of sustainability and continuity

of scientific productivity and presented by the

total document count which covers all

scholarly literature including conference

papers, reviews, letters, discussions, scripts in

addition to journal articles published during

2011-2013 period. The weight of this indicator

is %10.

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Article Impact Total (AIT):

is a measure of scientific productivity adjusted by the

institution’s normalized CPP with respect to the world

CPP in 23 subject areas between 2011 and 2013. The ratio

of the institution’s CPP and the world CPP indicates

whether the institution is performing above or below the

world average in that field. This ratio is multiplied by the

number of publications in that field and then summed

across the 23 fields.

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𝑨𝑰𝑻 =

𝒊=𝟏

𝟐𝟑𝑪𝑷𝑷𝒊𝑪𝑷𝑷𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅

∗ 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒊

This indicator aims to balance the institution’s

scientific productivity with the field normalized

impact generated by those publications in each

field. The weight of this indicator is %18.

*CPP stands for citation per publication.13

Citation Impact Total (CIT):

is a measure of research impact adjusted by the

institution’s normalized CPP with respect to the world

CPP in 23 subject areas between 2011 and 2013. The

ratio of the institution’s CPP and the world CPP

indicates whether the institution is performing above

or below the world average in that field. This ratio is

multiplied by the number of citations in that field and then summed across the 23 fields.

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𝑪𝑰𝑻 =

𝒊=𝟏

𝟐𝟑𝑪𝑷𝑷𝒊𝑪𝑷𝑷𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅

∗ 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊

This indicator aims to balance the institution’s

scientific impact with the field normalized

impact generated by the publications in each

field. The contribution of this indicator to the

overall ranking is %15.

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International Collaboration:

is a measure of global acceptance of a

university. International collaboration data,

which is based on the total number of

publications made in collaboration with foreign

universities, is obtained from InCites™ for the

years 2011-2013. The weight of this indicator is

%15 in the overall ranking.

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• For the 2014-2015 URAP World Ranking,

bibliometric data is obtained through Thomson

Reuters’ InCites™ research analytics service ,

which provides an interface to the Web of

Science database.

• The 23 subject areas used in the ranking are

based on the discipline classification matrix

developed by the Australian Research Council

for journals indexed in Web of Science .

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WEIGHTING and AGGREGATION

• Delphi system is used to assign weighting

scores for the indicators.

• Total score of 600 is assigned to each indicator

as follows:

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IndicatorWeight

(%)

Article 21

Total Documents 10

Citation 21

Article Impact Total 18

Citation Impact Total 15

International Collaboration 15

URAP WORLD RANKING

NUMBER OF UNIVERSITIES

COUNTRY TOP 2000 TOP 500 TOP 100USA 336 122 40

CHINA MAINLAND 219 41 5

JAPAN 152 16 3

UNITED KINGDOM 107 34 7

FRANCE 83 23 3

INDIA 80 1

TURKEY 76 4

ITALY 60 26 2

GERMANY 57 39 5

SOUTH KOREA 55 14 1

SPAIN 52 16 1

CANADA 51 21 5

TAIWAN 45 8 1

POLAND 40 2

AUSTRALIA 39 18 519

URAP

World

2014-2015

Country Name TOTAL SCORE

1 USA Harvard University 600.00

2 CANADA University of Toronto 590.15

3 UNITED KINGDOM University of Oxford 581.74

4 USA Johns Hopkins University 561.40

5 UNITED KINGDOM University of Cambridge 556.21

6 UNITED KINGDOM University College London 551.66

7 USA Stanford University 546.94

8 USA University of Cal. Berkeley 536.50

9 USA MIT 532.67

10 USA University of Michigan 529.40

11 USA Univ. of Washington Seattle 523.17

12 USA University of Cal. Los Angeles 522.82

13 USA University of Pennsylvania 514.01

14 USA Columbia Univ. New York 508.67

15 UNITED KINGDOM Imperial College 503.5320

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URAP World

2014-2015

Country Name TOTAL

433 TURKEY Middle East Tech. Univ. 318.55487 TURKEY Ege University 314.72488 TURKEY Istanbul Technical Univ 314.69489 TURKEY Istanbul University 314.57525 TURKEY Hacettepe University 312.47532 TURKEY Gazi University 312.24535 TURKEY Ankara University 312.09575 TURKEY Bogazici University 310.67729 TURKEY Cukurova University 304.43760 TURKEY Suleyman Demirel Univ. 303.36791 TURKEY Erciyes University 302.29831 TURKEY Gaziantep University 301.21860 TURKEY I. D. Bilkent University 300.24

957 TURKEY Mersin University 291.83

TOP 15 TURKISH UNIVERSITIES IN URAP WORLD RANKING

URAP TR (SPECIAL RANKING OF

TURKISH UNIVERSITIES)

• 127 universities including military schools and

technology institutes

– Student enrollment in 2009 to four year programs

• Overall Ranking & 23 Fields Ranking

• 9 indicators to evaluate academic

performance

• Education and research emphasis

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URAP TURKISH UNIVERSITIES RANKING

Indicators for URAP TRIndicator Objective Years Source

Number of articles Research 2013 Web of Sci

Number of articles per faculty Research 2013 Web of Sci and OSYM

Number of citations Research 2009 - 2013 Web of Sci

Number of citations per faculty Research 2009 - 2013 Web of Sci and OSYM

Total Number of Scientific

DocumentsResearch 2009 - 2013 Web of Sci

Total Number of Scientific Documents

per faculty

Research2009 - 2013 Web of Sci and OSYM

Number of Ph.D. Students Education and Res. 2012 OSYM

Percentage of Ph.D. Students Education and Res. 2012 OSYM

Number of students per faculty Education 2012 OSYM 23

URAP TURKISH UNIVERSITIES RANKING

URAP TR 2014-

2015

University TOTAL

1 Hacettepe University 811.40

2 Orta Dogu Teknik University 806.24

3 Istanbul University 740.41

4 Istanbul Teknik University 736.95

5 Ege University 735.77

6 Ankara University 725.25

7 Bogazici University 718.45

8 İ.D. Bilkent University 705.61

9 Gebze Yuksek Teknoloji Enstitusu 700.66

10 Gazi University 696.74

11 Sabanci University 694.96

12 Izmir Yuksek Teknoloji Enstitusu 693.33

13 Koc University 665.10

14 Selcuk University 645.0924

Contact Information

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