World University Rankings and their criteria / indicators
- THE World University Rankings (2018) MU = 501-600 (No.1 in Thailand)
Teaching (the learning environment) (30%)
Research (volume, income and reputation) (30%)
Citations (research influence) (30%)
International outlook (staff, students and research) (7.5%)
Industry income (knowledge transfer) (2.5%) - THE Asia University Rankings (2018) MU =97 (No.1 in Thailand)
Teaching (the learning environment) (25%)
Research (volume, income and reputation) (30%)
Citations (research influence) (30%)
International outlook (staff, students and research) (7.5%)
Industry income (knowledge transfer) (7.5%) - QS World University Rankings (2019) MU =380 (No.2 in Thailand) / CU = 271
Academic reputation (40%)
Employer reputation (10%)
Faculty/Student Ratio (20%)
Citations per faculty (20%)
International faculty ratio (5%)
International student ratio (5%) - QS ASIA University Rankings (2018) MU =58 (No.2 in Thailand) / CU = 50
Academic reputation (30%)
Employer reputation (20%)
Faculty/Student Ratio (15%)
Citations per faculty (10%) and papers per faculty (10%)
Staff with a Ph.D. (5%)
Proportion of International faculty (2.5%) and
Proportion of International students (2.5%)
Proportion of inbound exchange students (2.5%) and
proportion of outbound exchange students (2.5%) - Webometrics Ranking: Ranking Web of Universities (July 2018)
MU =563 (world) / 6 (SEA) / 2 (Thailand)
CU = 515 (world) / 4 (SEA) / 1 (Thailand)
PRESENCE (5%) : Size (number of pages) of the main webdomain of the institution. It includes all the subdomains sharing the same (central of main) webdomain and all the file types including rich files like pdf documents. (Source = Google)
VISIBILTY (50%) : Number of external networks (subnets) originating backlinks to the institution’s webpages. After normalization, the average value between the two sources is selected (Source = ahrefs, Majestic)
TRANSPARENCY or OPENNESS (10%) : Number of citations from Top authors according to the source (Source = Google Scholar Citations)
EXCELLENCE or SCHOLAR (35%) : Number of papers amongst the top 10% most cited in 26 disciplines. Data for the five year period (2012-2016) (Source = Scimago) - Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) or Shanghai Ranking (2018)
MU =501-600 (No.2 in Thailand)
CU =501-600 (No.1 in Thailand)
Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (10%)
Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (20%)
Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories 20%)
Papers published in Nature and Science (20%)
Papers indexed in Science Citation Index-expanded (20%)
and Social Science Citation Index
Per capita academic performance of an institution (10%) - NTU Ranking (National Taiwan University) (2018) MU = 445 (No.1 in Thailand)
Research productivity (25%)
Number of articles in the last 11 years* (2007-2017) (10%)
Number of articles in the current year (2017) (15%)
Research impact (35%)
Number of citations in the last 11 years* (2007-2017) (15%)
Number of citations in the last 2 years (2016-2017) (10%)
Average number of citations in the last 11 years* (2007-2017) (10%)
Research Excellence (40%)
h-index of the last 2 years (2016-2017) (10%)
Number of Highly Cited Papers* (2007-2017) (15%)
Number of articles in the current year in high-impact journals (2016-2017) (15%) - CWTS Leiden Ranking (2018) MU = 456 (No.1 in Thailand)
Publications (in WOS)
Size-dependent vs. size-independent indicators
Impact indicators (citations)
Collaboration indicators - Scimago Institutions Rankings (2018) MU = 467 (No.1 in Thailand)
Research (50%)
Excellence with leadership (13%)
Normalized impact (13%)
Output (8%)
Scientific talent pool (5%)
Scientific leadership (5%)
International collaboration (2%)
High quality publications (2%)
Excellence (2%)
Innovation (30%)
Innovative knowledge (10%)
Technological impact (10%)
Patents (10%)
Societal (20%)
Number of Backnets (from ahrefs database) (15%)
Web size (5%) - UI GreenMetric World Universities Ranking (2017) MU = 86 (No.1 in Thailand)
Setting and Infrastructure (15%)
Energy and Climate Change (21%)
Waste (18%)
Water (10%)
Transportation (18%)
Education and Research (18%)