UrFU Debuts in Famous ARWU Ranking

09:56, August 15, 2018

Cooperation with foreign scientists and high publication activity play the key role in promotion of the university

Ural Federal University entered group 701-800 in the general ranking and took 5-6 positions among Russian universities in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The ranking was published yesterday on August 14, 2018.

‘International research collaborations and high publicity helped the university to enter the Shanghai Ranking, which mainly assesses scientometric indicators. I am sure, our participation in the "5-100" project aimed at strengthening the positions of the leading Russian universities in the world, was of decisive importance. Recently, the success of our scientists was noted in the ARWU Ranking of Academic Subjects - Metallurgical Engineering, where UrFU took a position in the group 151-200,’ said UrFU Rector Victor Koksharov. 

The Academic Ranking of World Universities is issued by the Institute of Higher Education of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The original purpose of the ranking was to estimate the gap between Chinese universities and world-class universities, in particular, from the point of view of academic and research activities.

The ranking includes the main higher education institutions ranked according to a formula that takes into account articles published in such journals as Nature and Science, citation indexes for natural sciences and humanities of the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index, as well as indexes of the leading magazines of the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Graduates and employees-laureates of the Nobel or Fields Prizes and often cited researchers in 21 categories are also considered. In addition, the authors looked at the cumulative result of previous indicators in relation to the number of staff members at the university.