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The Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities is a ranking system of 500 world universities by scientific paper volume, impact, and performance output. The ranking is published by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT)^[1] The project employs bibliometric methods to analyze and rank the scientific paper performance. In addition to the overall ranking, HEEACT publishes a list of the top 300 universities by six fields and ten subjects of science and technology. ^[2]

The rankings were introduced in 2007. The original ranking methodology favored toward universities with medical schools. In 2008, HEEACT began publishing a "Field Based Ranking" including six fields: agriculture and environmental sciences (AGE), clinical medicine (MED), engineering, computing, and technology (ENG), life sciences (LIFE), natural sciences (SCI), and social sciences (SOC).^[3]

In 2010, HEEACT began publishing subject rankings in fields of various field of science and technology. Science fields are divided into physics, chemistry, mathematics, and geosciences. Technology fields are split up into electrical engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering (including energy and fuels), materials science, and civil engineering (including environmental engineering).

Contents

1 Methodology
2 HEEACT World University Rankings (Top 50)
3 HEEACT World University Rankings (Top 20 by field)
4 HEEACT World University Rankings (Top 20 by subject)
5 Commentary
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Methodology

The HEEACT rankings use the following criteria:

Research productivity (weighed 20%) - The number of published articles of the last 11 years (10%) and the number of articles of the current year (10%),.
Research impact (weighed 30%) - Number of citations of the last 11 years (10%), the number of citations of the last two years (10%), and the average number of citations of the last 11 years (10%).
Research excellence (weighed 40%) - The h-index of the last two years (20%), the number of highly-cited papers (15%), and the number of articles of the current year in high-impact journals (15%).

Quantitative data is drawn from Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). The data is normalized by faculty number to account for different institution sizes. The indicators used in this methodology highly emphasize research quality (80% of the performance score) and short-term research performance (55% of the score).

Due to disagreement about ranking results, the Taiwanese education authority has announced that the government will not continue support the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan to do this ranking in 2012.Taiwan refuse to continue supporting the HEEACT ranking</ref>

HEEACT World University Rankings (Top 50)

2010	2009	2008	2007	Institution	Country
1	1	1	1	Harvard University	United States
2	3	3	4	Stanford University	United States
3	2	2	2	Johns Hopkins University	United States
4	4	4	3	University of Washington	United States
5	5	5	5	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
6	8	6	7	University of California, Berkeley	United States
7	7	7	10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
8	6	7	6	University of Michigan	United States
9	11	14	12	University of Toronto	Canada
10	17	19	19	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
11	9	11	11	University of Pennsylvania	United States
12	13	10	8	University of California, San Diego	United States
13	10	13	9	Columbia University	United States
14	14	12	13	University of Tokyo	Japan
15	12	9	15	University of California, San Francisco	United States
16	15	16	17	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
17	20	20	24	University College London	United Kingdom
18	16	15	14	Yale University	United States
19	18	17	16	Duke University	United States
20	25	21	20	University of Wisconsin–Madison	United States
21	22	27	28	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
22	19	18	18	Cornell University	United States
23	24	22	21	University of Pittsburgh	United States
24	21	23	22	University of Minnesota	United States
25	23	26	25	Washington University in St. Louis	United States
26	27	25	23	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
27	26	30	29	Northwestern University	United States
28	28	28	27	Kyoto University	Japan
29	32	32	35	University of California, Davis	United States
30	29	24	26	University of Chicago	United States
31	30	31	32	California Institute of Technology	United States
32	31	33	39	University of British Columbia	Canada
33	33	35	30	Ohio State University	United States
34	34	36	50	Karolinska Institutet	Sweden
35	36	34	36	McGill University	Canada
36	46	44	41	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign	United States
37	43	45	54	Emory University	United States
38	35	38	40	Osaka University	Japan
39	38	42	48	Princeton University	United States
40	47	43	44	University of Florida	United States
41	44	52	33	University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	United States
42	40	29	31	Pennsylvania State University	United States
43	51	58	64	University of Melbourne	Australia
44	42	47	46	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	Germany
45	45	41	43	New York University	United States
46	48	63	37	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine	United States
47	48	50	52	University of Helsinki	Finland
48	57	46	45	Vanderbilt University	United States
49	56	53	56	Utrecht University	Netherlands
49	40	37	38	University of Arizona	United States

HEEACT World University Rankings (Top 20 by field)

Agriculture & Environment Sciences

2010	2009	2008	University	Country
01	01	01	University of California- Davis	USA
02	02	02	Wageningen University	Netherlands
03	03	03	Cornell University	USA
04	04	04	University of California- Berkeley	USA
05	05	05	University of Wisconsin- Madison	USA
06	06	06	University of Florida	USA
07	08	09	Michigan State University	USA
08	07	08	University of Minnesota- Twin Cities	USA
09	10	11	Harvard University	USA
10	15	19	Ghent University	Belgium
11	11	14	Oregon State University	USA
12	14	10	The University of British Columbia	Canada
13	12	13	Duke University	USA
14	09	07	University of Georgia	USA
15	13	48	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
16	19	17	The University of Tokyo	Japan
17	20	20	University of Arizona	USA
18	16	16	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Sweden
19	17	15	University of Helsinki	Finland
20	18	18	University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign	USA

Clinical Medicine

2010	2009	2008	University	Country
01	01	01	Harvard University	USA
02	02	02	Johns Hopkins University	USA
03	03	03	University of California- San Francisco	USA
04	05	04	University of California- Los Angeles	USA
05	06	12	University of Toronto	Canada
06	07	05	University of Washington- Seattle	USA
07	04	07	University of Pennsylvania	USA
08	08	06	University of Pittsburgh- Pittsburgh	USA
09	12	10	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine	USA
10	11	08	Duke University	USA
11	10	09	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	USA
12	9	11	Columbia University	USA
13	13	13	Stanford University	USA
14	15	14	University College London	United Kingdom
15	14	16	The University of Texas- M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	USA
16	17	15	Karolinska Institutet	Sweden
17	16	19	University of California- San Diego	USA
18	19	18	University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill	USA
19	18	17	Yale University	USA
20	20	20	Washington University in St. Louis	USA

Engineering, Computing & Technology

2010	2009	2008	University	Country
01	01	02	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
02	02	01	University of California- Berkeley	USA
03	06	05	Tsinghua University	China
04	04	03	National University of Singapore	Singapore
05	05	04	Stanford University	USA
06	03	06	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA
07	10	14	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
08	07	08	University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign	USA
09	08	10	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	USA
10	12	11	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
11	09	07	Pennsylvania State University- University Park	USA
12	17	21	Seoul National University	South Korea
13	13	13	Harvard University	USA
14	14	12	The University of Tokyo	Japan
15	11	09	Tohoku University	Japan
16	19	15	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
17	18	23	Northwestern University	USA
18	15	16	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich	Switzerland
19	30	41	National Cheng Kung University	ROC(Taiwan)
20	24	38	Zhejiang University	China

Life Sciences

2010	2009	2008	University	Country
01	01	01	Harvard University	USA
02	02	02	Johns Hopkins University	USA
03	03	03	University of California- San Francisco	USA
04	06	06	University of California- San Diego	USA
05	04	04	Stanford University	USA
06	08	11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
07	12	12	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
08	09	07	University of Washington- Seattle	USA
09	07	05	Yale University	USA
10	10	10	University College London	United Kingdom
11	05	08	University of Pennsylvania	USA
12	11	9	University of California- Los Angeles	USA
13	13	13	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
14	18	18	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	USA
15	16	15	Washington University in St. Louis	USA
16	14	16	University of Toronto	Canada
17	17	17	The University of Tokyo	Japan
18	15	14	Columbia University	USA
19	19	19	Duke University	USA
20	27	35	Imperial College London	United Kingdom

Physical, Chemical

2010	2009	2008	University	Country
01	01	01	University of California- Berkeley	USA
02	02	02	The University of Tokyo	Japan
03	03	03	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
04	04	04	California Institute of Technology	USA
05	05	05	Harvard University	USA
06	06	07	Stanford University	USA
07	07	06	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
08	08	08	Princeton University	USA
09	12	16	University of California- Los Angeles	USA
10	09	12	University of Washington- Seattle	USA
11	16	15	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
12	10	9	Kyoto University	Japan
13	11	19	Columbia University	USA
14	15	13	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	USA
15	14	10	Pennsylvania State University- University Park	USA
16	13	17	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich	Switzerland
17	23	21	University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign	USA
18	20	23	University of Wisconsin- Madison	USA
19	26	32	University of Maryland- College Park	USA
20	22	24	University of Paris VI: Pierre et Marie Curie	France

Social Sciences

2010	2009	2008	University	Country
01	01	01	Harvard University	USA
02	02	02	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	USA
03	05	05	Columbia University	USA
04	03	04	University of Pennsylvania	USA
05	04	03	University of California- Los Angeles	USA
06	06	08	Stanford University	USA
07	07	06	University of Washington- Seattle	USA
08	11	12	University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill	USA
09	10	09	University of California - Berkeley	USA
10	14	13	University of Minnesota- Twin Cities	USA
11	08	11	Johns Hopkins University	USA
12	09	07	The University of Chicago	USA
13	13	14	Yale University	USA
14	12	18	Duke University	USA
15	28	29	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
16	16	22	University of Toronto	Canada
17	20	10	University of Wisconsin- Madison	USA
18	15	17	Northwestern University	USA
19	21	23	University of Pittsburgh- Pittsburgh	USA
20	23	19	University of California- San Francisco	USA

HEEACT World University Rankings (Top 20 by subject)

Physics (includes Astronomy and Space Science)

Chemistry

Mathematics

2010	University	Country
01	Stanford University	USA
02	University of California- Berkeley	USA
03	Harvard University	USA
04	Princeton University	USA
05	University of California- Los Angeles	USA
06	University of Minnesota- Twin Cities	USA
07	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	USA
08	University of Washington- Seattle	USA
09	University of Paris VI: Pierre et Marie Curie	France
10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
11	National University of Singapore	Singapore
12	University of Wisconsin- Madison	USA
13	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
14	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
15	The University of Chicago	USA
16	University of Paris XI: Sud	France
17	New York University	USA
18	Texas A&M University- College Station	USA
19	California Institute of Technology	USA
20	Columbia University	USA

Geosciences

2010	University	Country
01	University of Colorado- Boulder	USA
02	University of Washington- Seattle	USA
03	California Institute of Technology	USA
04	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich	Switzerland
05	University of California- Berkeley	USA
06	Columbia University	USA
07	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
08	University of California- San Diego	USA
09	University of Hawaii	USA
10	Harvard University	USA
11	The University of Tokyo	Japan
12	University of Maryland- College Park	USA
13	University of Arizona	USA
14	University of Wisconsin- Madison	USA
15	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
16	Colorado State University	USA
17	University of Paris VI: Pierre et Marie Curie	France
18	The Australian National University	Australia
19	University of California- Los Angeles	USA
20	University of Oxford	United Kingdom

Electrical Engineering

2010	University	Country
01	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
02	University of California- Berkeley	USA
03	National University of Singapore	Singapore
04	Stanford University	USA
05	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA
06	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
07	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	USA
08	University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign	USA
09	University of California- Los Angeles	USA
10	Tsinghua University	China
11	Harvard University	USA
12	National Cheng Kung University	ROC(Taiwan)
13	University of California- San Diego	USA
14	California Institute of Technology	USA
15	Purdue University- West Lafayette	USA
16	National Taiwan University	ROC(Taiwan)
17	National Chiao Tung University	ROC(Taiwan)
18	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich	Switzerland
19	University of Toronto	Canada
20	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong

Computer Science

2010	University	Country
01	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
02	Stanford University	USA
03	University of California- Berkeley	USA
04	Harvard University	USA
05	University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign	USA
06	National University of Singapore	Singapore
07	Carnegie Mellon University	USA
08	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
09	Princeton University	USA
10	University of California- San Diego	USA
11	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich	Switzerland
12	Technion- Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
13	University of Southern California	USA
14	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA
15	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
16	Tsinghua University	China
17	University of California- Los Angeles	USA
18	University of Maryland- College Park	USA
19	National Cheng Kung University	ROC(Taiwan)
20	University of Minnesota- Twin Cities	USA

Civil Engineering (including Environmental Engineering)

2010	University	Country
01	University of California- Berkeley	USA
02	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich	Switzerland
03	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
04	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
05	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
06	University of California- Davis	USA
07	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
08	University of Queensland	Australia
09	University of Toronto	Canada
10	National Taiwan University	ROC(Taiwan)
11	Tsinghua University	China
12	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA
13	Zhejiang University	China
14	Stanford University	USA
15	National Cheng Kung University	ROC(Taiwan)
16	Texas A&M University- College Station	USA
17	Pennsylvania State University- University Park	USA
18	University of Waterloo	Canada
19	Arizona State University	USA
20	The University of Texas- Austin	USA

Mechanical Engineering

2010	University	Country
01	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
02	Stanford University	USA
03	University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign	USA
04	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	USA
05	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA
06	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
07	University of California- Berkeley	USA
08	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
09	Cornell University	USA
10	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
11	Tsinghua University	China
12	Princeton University	USA
13	National University of Singapore	Singapore
14	Purdue University- West Lafayette	USA
15	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
16	California Institute of Technology	USA
17	Seoul National University	South Korea
18	Northwestern University	USA
19	Harvard University	USA
20	Pennsylvania State University- University Park	USA

Chemical Engineering (including Energy & Fuels)

2010	University	Country
01	Kyoto University	Japan
02	Pennsylvania State University- University Park	USA
03	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
04	National University of Singapore	Singapore
05	The University of New South Wales	Australia
06	Seoul National University	South Korea
07	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
08	Tsinghua University	China
09	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
10	Zhejiang University	China
11	Carnegie Mellon University	USA
12	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
13	University of Science and Technology of China	China
14	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA
15	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich	Switzerland
16	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
17	National Taiwan University	ROC(Taiwan)
18	Tianjin University	China
19	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea
20	The University of Texas- Austin	USA

Materials Science

2010	University	Country
01	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
02	Tohoku University	Japan
03	National University of Singapore	Singapore
04	University of California- Berkeley	USA
05	Tsinghua University	China
06	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
07	Northwestern University	USA
08	Seoul National University	South Korea
09	Harvard University	USA
10	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA
11	University of California- Santa Barbara	USA
12	Pennsylvania State University- University Park	USA
13	The University of Tokyo	Japan
14	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
15	Stanford University	USA
16	University of Washington- Seattle	USA
17	Osaka University	Japan
18	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	USA
19	University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign	USA
20	Imperial College London	United Kingdom

Commentary

The Australian higher education indicated that the 2007 performance ranking of scientific papers for world universities produced by HEEACT is a useful addition to the present world university ranks because of its rigorous method and robust results, which are made possible by its more modest scope. ^[4] There are more comments on the HEEACT rankings. The senior research fellow of Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Wu Yi-shan, claimed that the HEEACT ranking is the best ranking system he has ever seen. Wu indicated that the HEEACT ranking considers both long term and short term performance of a university. The idea of combining long term and short term ranking indicators is a pioneering thought. ^[5] Richard Holmes posted on University Ranking Watch and noted: “Although the Shanghai rankings show a high correlation with other rankings (based on a tiny sample of US universities) the HEEACT rankings from Taiwan do somewhat better.” ^[6] Vice-President Research for the University of Toronto, Professor Paul Young, remarked that “the HEEACT rankings are relatively new, they are an important and methodologically robust measure of the quantity and quality of research performed by universities around the world.” ^[7]Also, dean of academic affairs at National Taiwan University, Chiang Been-Huang stated that “2009 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities by HEEACT are conducted based on objective figures.” ^[8]

References

^ http://www.heeact.edu.tw/mp.asp?mp=2
^ http://ranking.heeact.edu.tw/en-us/2010%20by%20Subject/Page/Background
^ http://ranking.heeact.edu.tw/en-us/2010%20by%20field/page/methodology
^ Moodie, G. (2008), Taiwan addition sums up science rank.(Retrieved Aug 6, 2009)
^ http://www.sciencenet.cn/m/user_content.aspx?id=219367
^ Holmes, R. (2009),Is There a q Factor in University Ranking?(Retrieved Aug 5, 2009)
^ Stephens, L. (2009),UofT first in Canada in international rankings for research.(Retrieved Aug 5, 2009)
^ Kao, Y.L. (2009),NTU ranks 26th in Webometrics Ranking of World Universities(Retrieved Aug 5, 2009)

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