Methodology

Three key aspects are identified for the World University Research Rankings, namely research multi-disciplinarity, research impact and research collaborative-ness. To quantitatively measure these three aspects, 7 indicators are selected with Web of Science as the source of data, using the OECD schema, as shown below. For each university, its values for these 7 indicators will be normalised and aggregated for respective rankings.

 

Aspect	Indicator	Measurement by indicator	Indicator’s weightage in overall score
Research multi-disciplinarity	% multi-field documents	Degree of multi-disciplinary research across different fields	1/7
	% multi-category documents	Degree of multi-disciplinary research across different categories within same research field	1/7
Research impact	Category Normalised Citation Impact	Average standard of University’s research impact	1/7
	% documents in Q1 journals (Top quartile of journals based on Journal Impact Factor)	Proportion of University’s publications in most impactful journals	1/7
	% documents in top 1% most cited documents by field, year and document type	Proportion of peaks of excellence in University’s research impact	1/7
Research collaborative-ness	% industry collaboration	Degree of collaborative-ness across academia-industry boundaries	1/7
	% international collaboration	Degree of collaborative-ness across international borders	1/7

Reference:
InCites Indicators Handbook