The University Ranking by Academic Performance is out

URAP is produced by people at the Informatics Institute of the Middle East Technical University, in Ankara. The ranking uses Web of Science data for institutions listed in inCite and is based on factors including number of articles, citation and impact.

The results it produces are broadly in-line, certainly at the top-end, with other research-output based rankings. This year’s Australian results are much the same as for the last two. The local top ten is;

Uni Sydney is 24^th in the world (24^th last year and 26^th in 2018), Uni Melbourne – 25^th (23^rd and 30^th), Uni Queensland – 35^th (35^th and 40^th), Monash U – 37^th (39^th and 53^rd), UNSW – 42^nd (44^th and 60^th), UWA – 11^th (110^th and 106^th), ANU – 135^th (134^th and 130^th), Uni Adelaide – 143^rd (144^th, 157^th), Curtin U – 206^th (220^th, 249^th), Griffith U – 245^th (264^th and 269^th).

There’s a bunch right behind them in the global top 300 – QUT – 249^th, UTS– 250th, Deakin U – 268^th, Uni Wollongong – 282 and Macquarie U – 284^th.