This Ranking is considered one of the three most important global rankings. It methodologically assesses any university that has graduates and professors who have won Nobel Prizes or other major awards, researchers whose articles have a high scientific impact and impact, and articles and publications in the major journals Nature and Science. In addition, the chart includes universities with a significant number of publications included in the Science-CitationIndex-Expanded (SCIE) and the Social Science Index CitationIndex (SSCI).
Since the publication of the ranking started in 2003, more than 1800 universities have been evaluated and from these, the top 500 charts is created. Since the 2019 ranking, a chart of the 1000 best universities worldwide has been published.
Universities are ranked based on six (6) indicators of academic and research performance. For each indicator, the "best" institution is scored 100, whereby each other institution is scored at the percentage below the first institution's score. These indicators are as follows:
1. ALUMNI indicator: the number of alumni who have received awards (Nobel, Field etc.) with a weight of 10%,
2. AWARD indicator: the number of faculty members who have received awards (Nobel, Field, etc.) with a weight of 20 %,
3. HiCi indicator: the number of faculty members included in lists of researchers with a very high number of citations with a weight of 20%,
4. N&S indicator: The number of publications in Nature and Science journals with a weight of 50%.
5. PUB indicator: the number of publications included in the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index databases with a weight of 20%,
6. PCP indicator: the Normalized per capita academic performance, which is obtained by weighting the sum of the above indicators by the number of faculty members, with a weight of 10%.
