The UAB moves up 32 positions in the URAP ranking of scientific productivity

Each year, the Informatics Institute of the Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey, publishes a ranking of the world's 2000 top higher education institutions: the University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP). The main objective of the ranking is to develop a ranking system for the world universities based on academic performances which are determined by quality and quantity of scholarly publications. .
 
The ranking is based on several indicators, each of them with a different weight: scientific productivity, measured through the number of articles published (21%); research impact according to the number of citations received per article published in the last three years and indexed by the Web of Science (21%); the sustainability and continuity of scientific productivity based on the total number of scholarly literature, including conference papers, reviews, letters, discussions and scripts published in the past three years (10%). scientific productivity weighted against the impact of each university in each of the subject areas (18%); impact in journals where the articles are published, also weighted against other universities in each of the subject areas (15%); and the degree of international collaborations, based on the total number of publications made in collaboration with foreign universities (15%).
 
The UAB moved up 32 positions with regard to last year's ranking and now ranks 118 in the world and second among Spanish universities, after the University of Barcelona. It belongs to the A+ category (of a maximum score of A++) and has 337.14 points over a global of 600 in the indicators. On a 10-point scale, the UAB obtains a global score of 6.7 in scientific productivity; a 6.2 in citations; a 6.4 in total of academic literature; a 6.2 in weighted scientific productivity; a 5.9 in weighted impact factor; and a 6.3 in international collaboration.
  
More information:
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