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Rankings and Enhancement of International Competitiveness of Russian Universities

URAP-UniversityRanking by

Academic Performance

Presented by

Prof. Dr. Ural AKBULUT URAP Coordinator and

Former President of Middle East Technical University

Moscow, 30 September-1 October 2014

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URAP Research Laboratory

URAP Lab: established

at Informatics Institute

of Middle East Technical

University in 2009.

Objective: to develop

a ranking system, based on academic performance

2000 universities are ranked.

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Indicators Indicator Objective Years Source

Number of Articles (21%)

Current Scientific Productivity

2012 ISI

Tot. Documents (21%)

Long - Term Overall Productivity

2008 - 2012

ISI

Citation (10%) Research Impact 2012 ISI

Cumulative Journal Impact (JIT) (18%)

Scientific Impact 2008 - 2012

ISI

Cumulative Journal Citation Imp (JCIT) (15%)

Scientific Impact 2008 - 2012

ISI

International Collabor. (15%)

International Acceptance

2008 - 2012

ISI

URAP WORLD RANKING

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URAP WORLD RANKING OVERALL 1. Number of articles: in 2012 (Web of Sci).

2. Citations: received in 2012 for the articles published during 2008-2012

3. Total Document: scholarly literature including conference papers, reviews, letters, discussions and scripts etc. published during 2008-2012

4. Journal Impact Total (JIT):Aggregated impact factors of journals for articles between 2008-2012

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5. Journal Citation Impact Total (JCIT): aggregated impact factors of journals where the citing articles are published in 2008 for articles published during 2008-2012 period

6. International Collaboration

Total number of documents of a university published in collaboration with the universities of other countries for the years 2008-2012.

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URAP WORLD RANKING OVERALL

URAP 2013-2014 FIELD BASED RANKING (23 Fields) Indicators

Indicator Objective Coverage Source

Article Scientific

Productivity 2010-2012 InCites

Citation Research Impact 2010-2012 InCites

Article Impact

Total Research Quality 2010-2012 InCites

Citation Impact

Total Research Quality 2010-2012 InCites

International

Collaboration

International

Acceptance 2010-2012 InCites

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URAP 2013-2014 FIELD BASED RANKING (23 Fields)

1. Article : articles published in 2010-2012. Weight: %25. (InCites)

2. Citation: citations received in 2010-2012 for the articles published in 2010-2012. Weight: 20%. (InCites)

3. Article Impact Total (AIT): the number of publications multiplied by the institution's CPP divided by the world CPP during 2010-2012. Weight: %20. (InCites)

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URAP 2013-2014 FIELD BASED RANKING (23 Fields)

4. Citation Impact Total (CIT): number of citations multiplied by the institution's CPP divided by the world CPP in that field during 2010-2012. Weight %25. (InCites)

5. International Collaboration: publications in collaboration with foreign universities during 2010-2012. Weight 10% (InCites)

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RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES IN URAP WORLD

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Country

Ranking University Name

World

Ranking Category Article Citation

Total

Document JIT JCIT Collaboration Total

1 Lomonosov Moscow

State Univ.

140 A+ 88.1 70.6 39.2 63.19 49.4 59.15 369.7

2 Saint Petersburg State

Univ.

543 B++ 67.8 64.2 31.7 55.8 45.6 49.02 314.1

3 Novosıbırsk State Univ 732 B++ 66.0 63.2 30.4 54.9 45.20 45.88 305.6

4 Moscow Institute of

Physics and Techn.

1315 B+ 43.8 21.3 14.8 32.7 17.06 39.09 168.7

5 Ural State Univ. 1352 B+ 56.7 18.9 18.4 24.2 12.08 29.32 159.6

6 Rostovskij

Gosudarstvennyj Univ.

1483 B+ 34.4 13.7 16.9 20.3 10.21 24.72 120.

7 Saratov State Univ. 1579 B 18.5 16.2 13.3 16.8 13.66 21.30 99.7

8 Siberian Federal Univ 1581 B 25.4 15.5 12.5 14.0 11.27 20.52 99.3

RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES IN URAP WORLD

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Country

Ranking University Name

World

Ranking Category Article Citation

Total

Document JIT JCIT Collaboration Total

9 TOMSK STATE Univ. 1610 B 22.60 10.71 13.80 15.52 7.28 23.65 93.56

10 Voronezh State Univ. 1775 B 21.07 5.10 11.60 10.84 3.81 14.46 66.88

11 Tomskij Politehniceskij

Univ. 1841 B 7.96 8.53 8.92 9.89 5.87 13.98 55.16

12 Peoples Friendship

Univ. of Russia 1893 B 14.51 4.26 11.14 5.19 2.49 10.75 48.35

13 Irkutskij

Gosudarstvennyj Univ. 1995 B 0.32 3.54 5.17 4.75 3.36 9.38 26.52

1. Lomonosov Moscow State University (LMSU) is ranked in top 500 by 7 ranking systems (URAP, ARWU, QS, NTU, Webometrics and SCImago). LMSU is ranked in top 500 by Leiden according to P indicator. LMSU is ranked in top 100 in THE (Times) Reputation Ranking.

2. Saint-Petersburg State University is ranked in top 500 by 3 ranking systems (ARWU, QS and Webometrics).

3. Novosibirsk State University is ranked in top 500 by 2 ranking systems (QS and Webometrics)

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RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES IN TOP 500 IN WORLD RANKINGS (URAP, LEIDEN, WEBOMETRICS, ARWU, NTU, QS, THE and SCImago)


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5. Bauman Moscow State Technical University is ranked in top 500 by QS.

6. Moscow State Institute of International Relations is ranked in top 500 by QS.

7. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology State University is ranked in top 500 by QS.

8. St. Petersburg State Politechnical University is ranked in top 500 by QS.

9. People's Friendship University of Russia is ranked in top 500 by QS.


9. Saint-Petersburg State Univ. is ranked among top 500-1000 in SCImago.

10. National Research Univ. – Higher Sch. of Economics (NRUHSE) , Ural Federal Univ., Tomsk Polytechnic Univ., Tomsk State Univ., Kazan Fed. Univ. Southern Fed. Univ., Far Eastern Fed. Univ., Lobachevsky State Univ. of Nizhni Novgorod, Plekhanov Russian Univ. of Economics and Voronezh State Univ. are ranked among top 500+ by QS.

NRUHSE, Southern Fed. Univ, Saratov State Univ. and ITMO Univ. are ranked among top 500-1000 by Webometrics.

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31 Russian universities among top 2000 world universities

1. Lomonosov Moscow State University

2. Saint-Petersburg State University

3. Novosibirsk State University

4. Bauman Moscow State Technical University

5. Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University)

6. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology State University

7. St. Petersburg State Politechnical University

8. People's Friendship University of Russia

9. National Research University – Higher School of Economics (HSE)

10. Ural Federal University

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31 Russian universities among top 2000 world universities 11. Tomsk Polytechnic Univ.

12. Tomsk State Univ.

13. Kazan Federal Univ.

14. Southern Federal Univ.

15. Far Eastern Federal Univ.

16. Lobachevsky State Univ. of Nizhni Novgorod

17. Plekhanov Russian Univ. of Economics

18. Voronezh State Univ.

19. Saratov State Univ.

20. Rostovskij Gosudarstvennyj Univ.

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31 Russian universities among top 2000 world universities

21. Siberian Federal Univ.

22. ITMO University / Университет ИТМО

23. Nizhny Novgorod State Univ.

24. Kemerovo State Univ. of Cult. and Arts

25. Belgorod State Univ.

26. Chelyabinsk State Univ.

27. Udmurt State University

28. Saratov State Technical Univ.

29. Novosibirsk State Technical Univ.

30. Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys MISIS

31. National Research Nuclear Univ. MEPhI

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RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES IN URAP FIELD RANKING 2013-2014 (23 FIELDS)

1. LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIV (LMSU) is ranked 1st in Russia and 140th in the world in 2013-2014 URAP World Ranking (Overall). LMSU is ranked 1st in Russia in 19 different fields by URAP (out of 23 fields). LMSU is in top 100 in the World in 3 different fields (15th in Math, 45th in Physics and 91st in Chemistry). LMSU is in top 500 in 12 different fields and in top 100 in 19 fields.

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2. ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIV (SPSU) is ranked 2nd in Russia and 543rd in the World in 2013-2014 URAP World Ranking (Overall). SPSU is 1st in Russia in one field. SPSU is in top 500 in 5 different fields, and in top 1000 in 13 fields.

3. STATE UNIV HIGHER SCH ECON (SUHSE) is ranked 1st in Russia in 2 fields. SUHSE is in top 1000 in the World in 6 different fields.

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4. ST PETERSBURG STATE POLYTECH UNIV(SPSPU) is 1st in Russia in one field. SPSPU is in top 1000 in 2 different fields.

5. LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIV NIZHNI NOVGOROD (LSUNN) is in top 1000 in 3 fields.

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RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES IN THE PAST

Lomonosov Moscow State University was founded in 1755 and has 11 Nobel laureates and 5 Fields Medal winners who are affiliated with the university.

Saint-Petersburg State University was founded in 1724 (1819) and 8 of the graduates of the university are Nobel laureates.

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Some Suggestions for Performing Better In URAP World Ranking Increase number of articles, citations and collaboration

There are many other experienced universities in Russia who had many leading scientists in the past. However few Russian universities are listed among top universities in World rankings. URAP, ARWU, NTU, Leiden and SCImago mainly consider scientific production and its quality. In order to improve the positions of Russian universities in URAP (and similar rankings):

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Increase number of articles, citations and collaboration

a) The universities must increase the number of articles published in international journals indexed by Web of Science or Scopus.

b) Number of articles should be doubled or tripled by most of the universities. First target should be to reach to 1 article per capita in a year (average of 1 article per academician with PhD).

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Second step should be to reach to 2 articles per capita. When number of articles reaches to level of 1.5 articles per person, medium size universities may have a chance to be in top 500 in URAP rankig. When number of articles per person reaches 2.0 the chance of being among top 200-300 in URAP will increase.

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c) Reaching to 2.0 articles per capita alone, may not be sufficient to take place in top 200-300 (or above). The number of citations received is onother URAP indicator. Increasing the number of high quality articles will increase the citations, which in turn increases citation-based scores in ranking systems.

Each university must convince faculty members to publish their articles in respectable journals with high impact factors. This helps to receive high number of citations.

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d) One of the reasons why many Russian universities did not perform well in URAP ranking is because of low number of citations.

e) Increasing the total number of citations will help Russian universities to perform better in URAP ranking and in other rankings. As the number of citations increases, number of citation per publication (CPP) will increase. Some ranking institutions use CPP as an indicators Russian universities can rise to upper positions wşth high number of citations.

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f) Some of the Russian universities publish reasonable amount of articles in some fields such as “engineering as well as mathematical, physical, biological and chemical sciences”.

g) g) URAP Field ranking showed that most of the Russian universities publish few or no articles in certain fields such as

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“medical and health sciences, earth sciences, environmental sciences, education, built environment- design (architecture & city planning), creative arts-writing, law & legal studies, language-communication-culture, information and computing, psychology & cognitive sciences, economics, commerce-management-tourism-services, studies in human society, history-archeology and philosophy.”

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h) Publishing articles in the fields given in “g” will help Russian universities to perform better in URAP ranking as well as in other rankings.

i) URAP World Ranking (Overall) showed that universities in top 250 have collaboration points above 50. Only one Russian university received above 50 in collaboration indicator and only two of them received just below 50. To take place in higher positions in URAP, universities must increase number of articles published with international collaboration.

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a) URAP World Ranking (Overall) showed that

universities in top 250 all have collaboration points

above 50. Only one Russian university received

above 50 points in collaboration indicator and only

two of them received just below 50. In order to

take place in higher positions in URAP, the

universities must increase the number of articles

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Motivate Faculty Members In order to motivate the faculty members to

publish more, the university administration can pay bonus for every scientific article published in journals indexed by Web of Sciences or Scopus. Bonus for each article can be equal to 1/2 or 1/3 of the salary of a professor. The bonus can be doubled or tripled for articles published in journals with high impact factor (top 10% and top 5%). METU, doubles the bonus for articles in journals with high impact factor (top 10% of each field) and triples the bonus for articles in journals with highest impact factor (top 5% of each field).

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Motivate Faculty Members Pay bonus each year for the top 20 percent

of faculty. Top 20% can be determined from the academic performance points of faculty members. Performance can be based on; publications, citations, MS and PhD student numbers, conferences attended, patents, student evaluation results etc. Bonus can be equivalent to the monthly salary of each person If the universities do not have financial sources for the bonus, the government can consider allocating the budget

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Recruitment and promotion criteria can be based on number of publications and citations

Universities can announce the minimum

number of international articles published and the minimum number of citation received for recruiting new faculty members for each department. The minimum number of articles and citations expected from candidates can be determined separately for Assistant Professors, Associate Professors and Full Professors in each Department.

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Recruitment and promotion criteria can be based on number of publications and citations

The easiest way to calculate the minimum number of articles and citation is to calculate the average number of academicians appointed to the department (or promoted) in the past 5 or 7 years. New candidates must have more articles and citations than the average score of previously appointed members in each department. This approach will help to increase the number of articles and citations of each department (A similar system have been used in METU for the past 20 years).

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Prevent inbreeding, and attract successful Russian academicians from abroad and from Russia

Inbreeding in universities prevents competition and as a result, PhD students and young faculty members do not publish enough. Universities need to find a way not to hire their own PhD students as academicians after graduation. Universities can start to attract bright and productive young Russian and foreign academicians from abroad or from other Russian universities.

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There are thousands of successful young Russians with PhD degrees received in other countries. Universities can keep contacts with them and then invite them to apply to Russian universities to work in Russia for a year or longer. The most productive ones can be hired as full time faculty members. A university sometimes may decide to hire an outstanding person who received PhD from their own university.

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In that case the administration can ask the candidate to go abroad as a postdoctoral fellow for one or two years and return with several articles published in high impact journals. In any case the number of inbreeds among faculty members should not be higher than 20% in the long run. Some World famous Russian and foreign professors in other countries can be invited to work in Russian universities for one or two years to start new research groups in new areas.

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In that case the administration can ask the candidate to go abroad as a postdoctoral fellow for one or two years and return with several articles published in high impact journals. In any case the number of inbreeds among faculty members should not be higher than 20% in the long run. Some World famous Russian and foreign professors in other countries can be invited to work in Russian universities for one or two years to start new research groups in new areas.

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Last words

I am confident that with the support of the 5top100 Project, Russian universities will take higher positions in most of the world rankings in a short period of time.

I am also confident that several universities will take place in the top 100 soon. China did it. Singapore did it. so can Russia. 07.10.2014 38

THANKS

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION I WILL BE PLEASED TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS

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