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Mapping Scientific Excellence, a new website out of Germany, has come up with a novel way to rank the world’s best universities and scientific institutions. It ranks an institution’s excellence by the rate at which it produces scientific papers that are most frequently cited. An MIT Technology review of the site, which Lutz Bornmann at the Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society launched on August 7, 2013, explains that “the site counts the number of papers produced by an institution in a given discipline and then counts the number of these that are among the top 10 per cent of most highly cited. If more than ten per cent of the institution’s papers are in this category it gets a positive rating, if less than 10 per cent, it gets a negative rating.”

The captivating part is the data visualization. The website lists the top institutions by discipline and displays them on a maps where you can compare regions in different disciplines.

The website, io9, notes fascinating surprises. “In physics and astronomy, for example, two of the top three institutions in physics and astronomy are Spanish: the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona and ICREA (Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats) also in Barcelona. Ranked 8th, above Harvard and MIT, is Partners Healthcare System, a non-profit healthcare organisation based in Boston that funds research, mostly in the life sciences.”

As they say, publish or perish!

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Move over U.S. News, a new ranking for universities and scientific institutions

by Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report
August 8, 2013

<h1>Move over U.S. News, a new ranking for universities and scientific institutions</h1> <p class="byline">by Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report <br />August 8, 2013</p> <p><a href="http://www.excellencemapping.net/#agriculturalandbiologicalsciences" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mapping Scientific Excellence</a>, a new website out of Germany, has come up with a novel way to rank the world’s best universities and scientific institutions. It ranks an institution’s excellence by the rate at which it produces scientific papers that are most frequently cited. An <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/517606/the-worlds-best-and-worst-scientific-institutions-ranked-by-discipline/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MIT Technology review of the site</a>, which Lutz Bornmann at the Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society launched on August 7, 2013, explains that “the site counts the number of papers produced by an institution in a given discipline and then counts the number of these that are among the top 10 per cent of most highly cited. If more than ten per cent of the institution’s papers are in this category it gets a positive rating, if less than 10 per cent, it gets a negative rating.”</p> <p>The captivating part is the data visualization. The website lists the top institutions by discipline and <a href="http://io9.com/ranking-the-worlds-best-and-worst-scientific-institu-1053029187" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">displays them on a map</a>s where you can compare regions in different disciplines.</p> <p>The <a href="http://io9.com/ranking-the-worlds-best-and-worst-scientific-institu-1053029187" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">website, io9, notes fascinating surprises</a>. “In physics and astronomy, for example, two of the top three institutions in physics and astronomy are Spanish: the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona and ICREA (Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats) also in Barcelona. Ranked 8th, above Harvard and MIT, is Partners Healthcare System, a non-profit healthcare organisation based in Boston that funds research, mostly in the life sciences.”</p> <p>As they say, publish or perish!</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org/move-over-u-s-news-a-new-ranking-for-universities-and-scientific-institutions/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org&quot;&gt;The Hechinger Report&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-favicon.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=12850&amp;amp;ga4=G-03KPHXDF3H&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://hechingerreport.org/move-over-u-s-news-a-new-ranking-for-universities-and-scientific-institutions/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hechingerreport.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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