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Criteria | Indicator | Code | Weight |
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Quality of Education | Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals | Alumni | 10% |
Quality of Faculty | Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals | Award | 20% |
Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories | HiCi | 20% | |
Research Output | Papers published in Nature and Science* | N&S | 20% |
Papers indexed in Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index | PUB | 20% | |
Per Capita Performance | Per capita academic performance of an institution | PCP | 10% |
Total | 100% | ||
* For institutions specialized in humanities and social sciences such as London School of Economics, N&S is not considered, and the weight of N&S is relocated to other indicators. |
The rating is compiled at the Institute of higher education Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2003 and includes only the best basic educational institutions in the world. Underlying rating on six indicators that reflect professional and scientific achievements of the employees as well as students and graduates of the University.
Many experts in education say that Shanghai's ranking systematic approach to the evaluation of universities and is one of the most objective in the world.