UPWr strengthened its placement in the ShanghaiRanking's GRAS 2022
This is the 6th edition of the prestigious Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, which evaluates the scientific efficiency of institutions around the world in various disciplines. This year, UPWr strengthened its position in food science and technology – ranked first in the country – and veterinary sciences – ranked fourth.
The UPWr significantly improved its performance in the food science and technology subject ranking, moving up from 174th to 143rd place (range 101-150), which gave us 1st place in Poland. Other Polish universities qualified in this ranking are the Poznań University of Life Sciences (151-200, 2nd place in Poland) and the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (201-300, 3rd place in Poland).
In the veterinary sciences subject ranking, there was also a rise from 287th to 228th place (201-300 range). Wroclaw veterinary sciences ranked 4th in the country. Other Polish universities – the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (range 101-150), the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (151-200) and Jagiellonian University (151-200) – were also included in the list.
ShanghaiRannking's GRAS 2022 methodology – indicators and weights
The GRAS ranking bases its methodology mostly on scientific publications. Indicators taken into account are the number of research papers in journals in the first quartile (Q1), citations (Category Normalized Citation Impact - CNCI), publications in international collaboration (IC) and the number of articles in the top journals selected by respondents of the ranking GRUP survey in given subject (Top Journals in an Academic Subject – TOP). Some ranking disciplines also take into account the number of significant distinctions and awards given to academic staff of the institution – these are also selected through surveys (AWARD).
Depending on the ranking subject, different weights are assigned to each indicator. The greatest weight for most subjects, including veterinary sciences and food science and technology, is given to the Q1 and TOP indicators regarding publication quality and the CNCI, regarding citations. The least weight is given to publications in international collaborations.
All bibliometric data are obtained from Web of Science, InCites databases and converted into ranking indicators. In this year's GRAS, performance for years from 2016 to 2020 was taken into account.
The whole ranking is available on ShanghaiRanking's website.
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