Date: 1/29/2011
TUMSPR News: The latest release by the newly established University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) laboratory has ranked Tehran University of Medical Sciences second in Iran and 526 in the world but the real position may be far better due to the recent integration of Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) into TUMS.
Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) which was established in 2009, has released its latest ranking of 2000 top world universities from 110 different countries.
Regarding Iranian universities, URAP has ranked University of Tehran first in Iran and 248 in the world while Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) has ranked 2nd in Iran and 526 in the world. As the laboratory's criteria mostly includes indices that cover an interval from 2005 to 2009, it seems it has not noticed the integration of Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) in the calculations and it has ranked IUMS separately—21st .
Turkey's Hacettepe University has ranked first in Turkey and 399 in the World. Istanbul University and Ankara universities have respectively ranked 2nd and 3rd in the country and 415 and 488 in the world.
King Saud University and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals have ranked 1st and 2nd in Saudi Arabia and 910 and 1087 in the world, respectively.
Universiti Malaya (UM) and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) have ranked 522 and 560 respectively.
As the URAP indicates, the ranking criteria have been based on:
1- Number of Articles
Total number of articles published in 2009 which are indexed by Web of Science. It measures quantity of current scientific output.
2- Google Scholar Results
Google Scholar results from year 2005 to 2009 are used. Google Scholar results help to measure quantity of continuing scientific output. Google Scholar includes journal and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research.
3- Citation
It is an indicator to evaluate the impact of publications. It is the total number of citations received in 2009 for the articles published in 2005-2009. It measures sustainability of the quality of scientific output. Citation count does not include self citations of authors. The data is obtained from Citation Report of ISI.
4- Cumulative Journal Impact
It is derived by aggregating the impact factors of journals in which a university published articles between 2005 and 2009. The data is based on Journal Impact Factors of ISI in 2009. The cumulative journal impact is calculated by the following formula:
5- H-Index
H Index is an indicator of research quality. It is calculated by averaging the H index values of 2005-2009. This metric is useful because it discounts the disproportionate weight of highly cited papers or papers that have not yet been cited.
6- International Collaboration
International collaboration can be considered as a measure of global acceptance of a university. Total number of documents of a university published in collaboration with the universities of other countries is obtained from ISI database for the years 2005-2009.
http://publicrelations.tums.ac.ir/english/news/detail.asp?newsID=22213
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