Wageningen UR in the international university rankings Wouter Gerritsma,Information specialist, Wageningen UR Library

From: Strategic Plan Wageningen UR 2007-2010

Essential Science indicators

Research field RankPublication

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Plant & Animal Science 6 4259

Environment/Ecology 5 2424

Agriculatural Sciences 4 2536

Overall 188 16324

Some other rankings

Sjanghai ARWU http://www.arwu.org/ THES rankings

http://www.topuniversities.com/ Leiden ranking

http://www.cwts.nl/ranking/LeidenRankingWebsite.html

Sjanghai ARWU rankings

ParametersQuality of EducationQuality of Faculty No. Nobel Prize/Field Medal No. HiCi Researchers Research Output No. Articles in Nature/Science (5 yr) No. Articles in Citation Index (1yr)Size of Institution (FTE)

Weight10%

20%20%

20%20%10%

Thes rankings

Parameter Peer Review Score Recruiter Review Faculty/Student Ratio International Students International Faculty Citations per Faculty

Weight40%10%20%5%5%20%

Leiden ranking

Publications in Web of Science Citations Baselines for 16 different research fields

Ranking on ‘Crown Indicator’

Results for Wageningen

Ranking Result

Sjanghai 152-200

THES 142

Leiden 123

Simple measures to increase rank

Ensure ‘best’ data presentation Publish in English language highly

cited/international journals Uniform institutional affiliation on all

publications Encourage colleagues to cite each

other Make publications OA

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