Rankings

Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)

Author

Center for World-Class Universities and the Graduate School of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Key performance indicators

ARWU adopts six objective indicators to rank world universities:

• The number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals
• The number of highly cited researchers in 21 research fields established by Thomson ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
• The number of articles published in the journals Nature and Science
• The number of articles indexed on Science Citation Index – Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
• Per capita performance

Subject areas

The Academic Ranking of World Universities establishes classifications in the following subject fields: Natural Sciences and Mathematics; Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences; Life and Agriculture Sciences; Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy, and Social Sciences. Moreover, ARWU publishes rankings in the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, and Economics and Business.

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Academic Ranking of World Universities

07.09.2018 The University of Barcelona, top university of Ibero-America according to the last edition of the Shanghai Ranking