Rising Stars of Asian research

Rising Stars of Asian research

Times Higher Education (THE) has just announced the latest edition of its Asian rankings. Since the indicators are the same as the world rankings with adjusted weightings there was absolutely no suspense about who would be top. In case anybody still doesn't know it was the National University of Singapore.

The really interesting part of the rankings is the citations indicator, field- and year-normalised, based on Scopus, with fractional counting only for papers with more than 1,000 authors.

Here are some of the superstars of Asian research. On the left is the citations rank and the score for citations. On the right in brackets is the score for Research comprising research reputation, publications per faculty, and research income. To achieve a score in the seventies, eighties or nineties  for citations with minimal research reputation, very few publications and limited funding is remarkable.

1st. 99.1. Babol Noshirvani University of Technology (15.3)
2nd. 92.0 King Abdulaziz University (92.3)
3rd.  93.1. Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (37.8)
7th. 81.2. Quaid-i-Azam University (1.3)
13th. 74.5. Fujita Health University (9.4)
16th.72.5.  Central China Normal University (11.3)

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