The University of Barcelona, second university worldwide in Gastroenterology and Hepatology

The first edition of CWUR by Subject 2017 classifies 26.000 higher education institutions worldwide in 227 fields.
The first edition of CWUR by Subject 2017 classifies 26.000 higher education institutions worldwide in 227 fields.
Research
(04/04/2017)
The University of Barcelona is the second university worldwide regarding Gastroenterology and Hepatology, according to the results of the first edition of the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) by Subject 2017, which classifies 26.000 high education institutions worldwide in 227 fields. All in all, the University of Barcelona is ranked within the top ten regarding three more disciplines, reaching a total of four. The only Spanish university reaching a better rank is the University of Valencia, which is listed five times in the top ten.
The first edition of CWUR by Subject 2017 classifies 26.000 higher education institutions worldwide in 227 fields.
The first edition of CWUR by Subject 2017 classifies 26.000 higher education institutions worldwide in 227 fields.
Research
04/04/2017
The University of Barcelona is the second university worldwide regarding Gastroenterology and Hepatology, according to the results of the first edition of the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) by Subject 2017, which classifies 26.000 high education institutions worldwide in 227 fields. All in all, the University of Barcelona is ranked within the top ten regarding three more disciplines, reaching a total of four. The only Spanish university reaching a better rank is the University of Valencia, which is listed five times in the top ten.

In the field of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the University of Barcelona got a score of 90.04 out of 100, following Harvard University (first position), and it gets the third position in Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry, with a score of 94.89. In this category, the Nanjing University and the University of Valencia are ranked first and second, respectively.

The good results of the UB are seen again in Pharmacology and Pharmacy, in which the UB is listed as the fourth university worldwide, with a score of 93.67, following Harvard University, the University College of London and the University of Toronto. Last, the UB is in the top ten (with the ninth position) in Analytical Chemistry, with a score of 90.32.

The Center for World University Rankings has analysed the data obtained from Clarivate Analytics (previously Thomson Reuters) from more than 26.000 universities and it has listed them into 227 fields corresponding to sciences and social sciences. To list the universities in those fields, CWUR has focused on the number of published articles in the scientific journals with the highest impact.