Today’s ranking is from the National Taiwan University, which ranks universities by number of articles published, citations, H index, highly cited papers and current-year articles in high-ranking journals. Anomalies? Undoubtedly. Gameable? No doubt. But as rankings expert Andrejs Rauvargers writes, “it deliberately uses publication and citation indicators only; therefore, data is reliable.” And it makes a change from ratings that sum people’s opinions.
The top of the NTU rating is certainly different, albeit not much, to the global ranking norm, with some US universities that do not appear in the standard first twenty. While Harvard is first in the world overall it is followed by, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Toronto, Oxford, Washington-Seattle, MIT=Michigan-Ann Arbor, UCal-Berkeley and UC-London.
The ANZ performers are: UniMelbourne (29), UniSydney (33), UofQueensland (=41), Monash U (61), UNSW (71), UWA (=129), ANU (142), UniAdelaide (154), UniAuckland (229), UniOtago (289), Walter and Eliza Hall, (306), Curtin U (366), Griffith U (366), Macquarie U (=372), QUT (=372), Deakin U (=386), UniNewcastle (=386), UniWollongong (392), James Cook U (401), UTas (422), Flinders U (473), UniSA (=478), UTS (=478), LaTrobe U (501=600), RMIT (501-600), Swinburne (501-600), UniCanterbury (501-600) Western Sydney U (501-600), Massey U (601-700), Murdoch U (701-800) and Victoria U of Wellington (701-800)
Last year the Australian universities in the top 100 were, UniMelb 31, UniSydney 38, UniQueensland 43, Monash 70, UNSW 86. The rest of the Group of Eight followed, UWA 134, ANU 160 and UniAdelaide 162.
The world top 100 ratings by broad field for this year and last are (have a look at natural sciences):
AGRICULTURE 2017: UoQ (5), UWA (27), UniMelb (33), ANU (41), UniSydney (47), James Cook U (48), UniAdelaide (53), UNSW (63), and UTas (89)
AGRICULTURE 2016: UoQ (7), UWA (29), UniMelb (35), James Cook U (42), ANU (47) UniSyd (50) UniAdelaide (51) UNSW (69) UniTas (87)
CLINICAL MEDICINE 2017: UniSydney (23), UniMelb (29), Monash U (65), UoQ (68), UNSW (84)
CLINICAL MEDICINE 2016: UniSyd (27), UniMelb (33) Monash U (69), UofQ 79, UNSW 95,
ENGINERING 2017: UNSW (40), MonashU (58), UoQ (72)
ENGINEERING 2016: NSW (46), MonashU (58) UoQ (64)
LIFE SCIENCES 2017: UniMelb (25), UoQ (39), UniSydney (54), Monash U (55), UNSW (79)
LIFE SCIENCES 2016: UniMelbourne (25) UoQ (41) Monash U (56) UniSyd (69) UNSW (90)
NATURAL SCIENCES 2017: UNSW (80), UniMelb (82), ANU (83), Monash U (92)
NATURAL SCIENCES 2016: ANU (95)
SOCIAL SCIENCES 2017: UniSydney (=23), UoQ (=23), UniMelbourne (28), Monash U (49), UNSW (55), ANU (85), Deakin U (88)
SOCIAL SCIENCES 2016: UoQ (25), UniMelbourne (29), UniSyd (31) Monash U (46) UNSW (57) ANU (79), Deakin (100)