University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP)

University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) focuses on Universities’ academic performance. URAP gathers data from around 3.000 Higher Education Institutions and ranks the top 2.500. The evaluation criteria are:

• Article (21%): a measure of current scientific productivity which includes articles published in journals that are listed within the first, second and third quartiles in terms of their Journal Impact Factor. Articles that include more than 1000 authors are excluded.

• Citation (21%): a measure of research impact and scored according to the total number of citations received in 2012-2016 for the articles published in 2012-2016 in journals that are listed within the first, second and third quartiles in terms of their Journal Impact Factor. Articles that include more than 1000 authors are excluded.

• Total Document (10%): the measure of sustainability and continuity of scientific productivity and presented by the total document count which covers all scholarly output of the institutions, including conference papers, reviews, letters, discussions, scripts in addition to journal articles published during 2012-2016 period. The total document counts are not subjected to any filtering.

• Article Impact Total (AIT) (18%): a measure of scientific productivity corrected by the institution's normalized CPP with respect to the world CPP in 23 subject areas between 2012 and 2016. The ratio of the institution's CPP and the world CPP indicates whether the institution is performing above or below the world average in that field. This ratio is multiplied by the number of publications in that field and then summed across the 23 fields. This indicator aims to balance the institution's scientific productivity with the field normalized impact generated by those publications in each field.

• Citation Impact Total (CIT) (15%): a measure of research impact corrected by the institution's normalized CPP with respect to the world CPP in 23 subject areas between 2012 and 2016. The ratio of the institution's CPP and the world CPP indicates whether the institution is performing above or below the world average in that field. This ratio is multiplied by the number of citations in that field and then summed across the 23 fields. This indicator aims to balance the institution's scientific impact with the field normalized impact generated by the publications in each field.

• International Collaboration (15%): a measure of global acceptance of a university. International collaboration data, which is based on the total number of articles published in collaboration with international universities, are obtained from InCites for the years 2012-2016.

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