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Clarivate Analytics Data Powers the Annual ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities
2018-08-29
Clarivate Analytics Data Powers the Annual ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities
Clarivate Analytics Data Powers the Annual ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
Universities from the United States dominate the ARWU 2018 Top 500 list, followed by China with 62 universities and the UK with 39 universities.
Philadelphia, USA, August 15, 2018 – The 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is released today by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Since 2003, every year ARWU has been presenting the world’s Top 500 universities based on Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index data from Clarivate Analytics, as well as data from other third parties. ARWU is recognized as a leader of global university rankings.
ARWU adopts six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of Highly Cited Researchers representing some of the world’s most influential minds as determined by a citation analysis of Web of Science data from Clarivate Analytics. Close to 1,500 universities are ranked by ARWU every year. This year the list of World Top 500 Candidates is extended to cover all universities ranked in the Top 1,000. Harvard University tops the ranking list for the 16th year running. Stanford University and the University of Cambridge remain at second and third respectively.
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Universities from the United States dominate the ARWU 2018 Top 500 list, followed by China with 62 universities and the UK with 39 universities.
Philadelphia, USA, August 15, 2018 – The 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is released today by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Since 2003, every year ARWU has been presenting the world’s Top 500 universities based on Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index data from Clarivate Analytics, as well as data from other third parties. ARWU is recognized as a leader of global university rankings.
ARWU adopts six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of Highly Cited Researchers representing some of the world’s most influential minds as determined by a citation analysis of Web of Science data from Clarivate Analytics. Close to 1,500 universities are ranked by ARWU every year. This year the list of World Top 500 Candidates is extended to cover all universities ranked in the Top 1,000. Harvard University tops the ranking list for the 16th year running. Stanford University and the University of Cambridge remain at second and third respectively.
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