Urap 2014 Symposiums

1. URAP
University Ranking by
Academic Performance
URAP 2014-2015 RANKING
Prof. Dr. Ural AKBULUT
METU – 12 November 2014

2. URAP Research Laboratory
• URAP Lab: established at Informatics Institute
of Middle East Technical University in 2009.
• Objective: to rank the world universities
a) Overall ranking
b) Field ranking
based on academic performances.
• The multidisciplinary team.
• Advisory Board (Former University Presidents)
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3. ADVISORY BOARD
Prof. Dr. Nusret ARAS
Former President of Ankara Univ.
Prof. Dr. Attila AŞKAR
Former President of Koç Univ.
Prof. Dr. Engin ATAÇ
Former President of Anadolu Univ.
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Prof. Dr. Ülkü BAYINDIR
Former President of Ege Univ.
Prof. Dr. Tunçalp ÖZGEN
Former President of Hacettepe Univ.
Prof. Dr. Yaşar SÜTBEYAZ
Former President of Atatürk Univ.

4. TEAM Prof. Dr. Ural AKBULUT
URAP Coordinator
Prof. Dr. Nazife BAYKAL
URAP Associate Coordinator
Prof. Dr. Canan ÇİLİNGİR
Dept. of Ind. Eng. METU
Prof. Dr. Ayşen AKKAYA
Dept. of Statistics, METU
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sevgi ÖZKAN
Informatics Institute, METU
Assist. Prof. Dr. Cengiz ACARTÜRK
Informatics Institute, METU
Assist Prof. Dr. Murat Perit ÇAKIR
Informatics Institute, METU
Dr. Serkan ALKAN
Research Coordination Office, METU
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Oğuzhan ALAŞEHİR
Informatics Institute, METU
Fatih ÖMRÜUZUN
Informatics Institute, METU
Murat KOÇAK
Informatics Institute, METU
Pelin Canbaz
Informatics Institute, METU
Nuray BALTACI
Informatics Institute, METU
Buket ARAN
Informatics Institute, METU
İlker KOÇ
Society and Science Center, METU
Çağatay TAŞCI
Computer Eng., Çankaya Univ.

5. METHODOLOGY
RESEARCH TOOLS
• Data Mining
• Bibliometrics
• Scientometrics
• Informetrics
• Statistics
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6. URAP RANKINGS
• URAP WORLD RANKING
– TOP 2000 for Overall Ranking
– 23 Field Rankings
• URAP TURKISH UNIVERSITIES RANKING
– 127 for Overall Ranking
– 23 Field Rankings
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7. Aim and Scope
URAP WORLD RANKING
• URAP selected about 2500 universities with
highest number of articles published in 2013.
They were processed and top 2000 of them
are scored.
• The study includes HEIs except for
governmental science academies, research
institutions, and hospitals.
• Objective data obtained from reliable
sources.
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8. URAP 2014-2015 World Ranking
• is based on 6 academic performance
indicators,
• publications constitute the basis of the
ranking methodology,
• both quality and quantity of publications
and international research collaboration
performance are used as indicators.
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9. Indicator Objective Coverage Source
Article
Current Scientific
Productivity
2013 InCites
Citation
Research Impact 2011-2013 InCites
Total Documents
Scientific
Productivity
2011-2013 Web of Sci.
Article Impact
Total
Research Quality 2011-2013 InCites
Citation Impact
Total
Research Quality 2011-2013 InCites
International
Collaboration
International
Acceptance
2011-2013 InCites
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10. Article: is a measure of current scientific
productivity (includes articles published in 2013
and indexed by Web of Science). Weight of this
indicator on the overall ranking is %21.
Citation: is a measure of research impact and
scored according to the total number of citations
received in 2011-2013 for the articles published in
and indexed by Web of Science. The effect of
citation on the overall ranking is %21.
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11. Total Documents:
is the measure of sustainability and continuity
of scientific productivity and presented by the
total document count which covers all
scholarly literature including conference
papers, reviews, letters, discussions, scripts in
addition to journal articles published during
2011-2013 period. The weight of this indicator
is %10.
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12. Article Impact Total (AIT):
is a measure of scientific productivity adjusted by the
institution’s normalized CPP with respect to the world
CPP in 23 subject areas between 2011 and 2013. 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.
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13. 푨푰푻 =
ퟐퟑ
풊=ퟏ
푪푷푷풊
푪푷푷풘풐풓풍풅
∗ 푨풓풕풊풄풍풆풔풊
This indicator aims to balance the institution’s
scientific productivity with the field normalized
impact generated by those publications in each
field. The weight of this indicator is %18.
*CPP stands for citation per publication.
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14. Citation Impact Total (CIT):
is a measure of research impact adjusted by the
institution’s normalized CPP with respect to the world
CPP in 23 subject areas between 2011 and 2013. 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.
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15. 푪푰푻 =
ퟐퟑ
풊=ퟏ
푪푷푷풊
푪푷푷풘풐풓풍풅
∗ 푪풊풕풂풕풊풐풏풔풊
This indicator aims to balance the institution’s
scientific impact with the field normalized
impact generated by the publications in each
field. The contribution of this indicator to the
overall ranking is %15.
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16. International Collaboration:
is a measure of global acceptance of a
university. International collaboration data,
which is based on the total number of
publications made in collaboration with foreign
universities, is obtained from InCites™ for the
years 2011-2013. The weight of this indicator is
%15 in the overall ranking.
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17. • For the 2014-2015 URAP World Ranking,
bibliometric data is obtained through Thomson
Reuters’ InCites™ research analytics service ,
which provides an interface to the Web of
Science database.
• The 23 subject areas used in the ranking are
based on the discipline classification matrix
developed by the Australian Research Council
for journals indexed in Web of Science .
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18. URAP WORLD RANKING
WEIGHTING and AGGREGATION
• Delphi system is used to assign weighting
scores for the indicators.
• Total score of 600 is assigned to each indicator
as follows:
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Indicator
Weight
(%)
Article 21
Total Documents 10
Citation 21
Article Impact Total 18
Citation Impact Total 15
International Collaboration 15

19. NUMBER OF UNIVERSITIES
COUNTRY TOP 2000 TOP 500 TOP 100
USA 336 122 40
CHINA MAINLAND 219 41 5
JAPAN 152 16 3
UNITED KINGDOM 107 34 7
FRANCE 83 23 3
INDIA 80 1
TURKEY 76 4
ITALY 60 26 2
GERMANY 57 39 5
SOUTH KOREA 55 14 1
SPAIN 52 16 1
CANADA 51 21 5
TAIWAN 45 8 1
POLAND 40 2
AUSTRALIA 39 18 5 19

20. URAP
World
2014-2015
Country Name TOTAL SCORE
1 USA Harvard University 600.00
2 CANADA University of Toronto 590.15
3 UNITED KINGDOM University of Oxford 581.74
4 USA Johns Hopkins University 561.40
5 UNITED KINGDOM University of Cambridge 556.21
6 UNITED KINGDOM University College London 551.66
7 USA Stanford University 546.94
8 USA University of Cal. Berkeley 536.50
9 USA MIT 532.67
10 USA University of Michigan 529.40
11 USA Univ. of Washington Seattle 523.17
12 USA University of Cal. Los Angeles 522.82
13 USA University of Pennsylvania 514.01
14 USA Columbia Univ. New York 508.67
15 UNITED KINGDOM Imperial College 503.53
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21. 21
URAP World
2014-2015
TOP 15 TURKISH UNIVERSITIES
IN URAP WORLD RANKING
Country Name TOTAL
433 TURKEY Middle East Tech. Univ. 318.55
487 TURKEY Ege University 314.72
488 TURKEY Istanbul Technical Univ 314.69
489 TURKEY Istanbul University 314.57
525 TURKEY Hacettepe University 312.47
532 TURKEY Gazi University 312.24
535 TURKEY Ankara University 312.09
575 TURKEY Bogazici University 310.67
729 TURKEY Cukurova University 304.43
760 TURKEY Suleyman Demirel Univ. 303.36
791 TURKEY Erciyes University 302.29
831 TURKEY Gaziantep University 301.21
860 TURKEY I. D. Bilkent University 300.24
957 TURKEY Mersin University 291.83

22. URAP TURKISH UNIVERSITIES RANKING
URAP TR (SPECIAL RANKING OF
TURKISH UNIVERSITIES)
• 127 universities including military schools and
technology institutes
– Student enrollment in 2009 to four year programs
• Overall Ranking & 23 Fields Ranking
• 9 indicators to evaluate academic
performance
• Education and research emphasis
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23. URAP TURKISH UNIVERSITIES RANKING
Indicators for URAP TR
Indicator Objective Years Source
Number of articles Research 2013 Web of Sci
Number of articles per faculty Research 2013 Web of Sci and OSYM
Number of citations Research 2009 - 2013 Web of Sci
Number of citations per faculty Research 2009 - 2013 Web of Sci and OSYM
Total Number of Scientific
Documents
Research 2009 - 2013 Web of Sci
Total Number of Scientific Documents
per faculty
Research
2009 - 2013 Web of Sci and OSYM
Number of Ph.D. Students Education and Res. 2012 OSYM
Percentage of Ph.D. Students Education and Res. 2012 OSYM
Number of students per faculty Education 2012 OSYM 23

24. URAP TR 2014-
2015
University TOTAL
1 Hacettepe University 811.40
2 Orta Dogu Teknik University 806.24
3 Istanbul University 740.41
4 Istanbul Teknik University 736.95
5 Ege University 735.77
6 Ankara University 725.25
7 Bogazici University 718.45
8 İ.D. Bilkent University 705.61
9 Gebze Yuksek Teknoloji Enstitusu 700.66
10 Gazi University 696.74
11 Sabanci University 694.96
12 Izmir Yuksek Teknoloji Enstitusu 693.33
13 Koc University 665.10
14 Selcuk University 645.09 24

25. Contact Information
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www.urapcenter.org
info@urapcenter.org
URAP Laboratory
Informatics Institute
Middle East Technical University
Tel: +90 (312) 210 37 42 – Fax: +90 (312) 210 37 45

26. THANK YOU FOR
YOUR PATIENCE
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