Taiwan (or HEEACT) Ranking
This ranking is now officially renamed as the National Taiwan University Ranking (NTU Ranking), and is now run by National Taiwan University, rather than by the Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT).
“On Nov 10, 2011, the Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT) released the results of the 2011 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities. In order to explain the usage and limitations of this performance of ranking system, HEEACT has compiled a list of frequently asked questions as follows: 1. What are the features of this ranking system? The features of this ranking system are with a quality indicator which accounts for 80% of the entire score. Our ranking is the first system employed through h-index, an indicator reflecting both the quality and quantity of research papers; 55% of the score represents a short-term progress of university in the performance of research. It should be noted that this ranking is exclusively based on the qualitative and quantitative performance of scientific papers. It does not evaluate the overall performance of university in teaching, research or administration …The database of WOS and ESI of Thomson Reuters are selected because of its good and consistent quality of data … ” (more)
Data is here. (Hint: Look for the small drop-down box that will allow you to render the page into English.)
The top 500 institutions world-wide are published in ranked order. Irish institutions appearing in the ranking are:
| 2012 rank |
2011 rank |
2010 rank |
2009 rank |
2008 rank |
|
| TCD | 235 | 215 | 230 | 243 | 255 |
| UCD | 277 | 265 | 305 | 319 | 335 |
| UCC | 398 | 411 | 437 | 377 | 400 |
Individual fields and subjects at each institution are also ranked individually, and the top 300 are published as a ranking. Irish appearances in this field/subject lists in 2012 and 2011 are:
| World Rank 2012 | World Rank 2011 | ||
| UCD | Subject: Agricultural | 28 | 31 |
| UCC | Subject: Agricultural | 37 | 37 |
| TCD | Subject: Materials Science | 110 | 102 |
| UCD | Field: Agriculture | 114 | 145 |
| UCD | Subject: Plant & Animal | 160 | 221 |
| UCC | Field: Agriculture | 167 | 181 |
| TCD | Field: Life Sciences | 174 | 165 |
| TCD | Subject: Chemistry | 195 | 199 |
| TCD | Field: Engineering | 203 | 180 |
| TCD | Subject: Pharmacology & Toxicology | 204 | - |
| UCD | Subject: Computer Science | 213 | 239 |
| UCD | Subject: Environment/Ecology | 225 | - |
| UCD | Field: Social Sciences | 227 | - |
| UCD | Subject: Electrical Engineering | 234 | - |
| UCD | Field: Life Sciences | 243 | 228 |
| TCD | Field: Social Sciences | 252 | 270 |
| TCD | Subject: Physics | 261 | - |
| TCD | Subject: Agricultural Sciences | 265 | - |
| TCD | Field: Clinical Medicine | 269 | 233 |
| UCD | Field: Clinical Medicine | 275 | 293 |
| UCD | Subject: Geoscience | 277 | 288 |
| UCC | Subject: Environment/Ecology | 277 | - |
| TCD | Subject: Mechanical Engineering | 279 | 273 |
| UCC | Subject: Computer Science | 281 | - |
| TCD | Field: Natural Sciences | 283 | 252 |
| TCD | Subject: Civil Engineering | 300 | - |
| TCD | Subject: Mathematics | - | 196 |
| TCD | Subject: Computer Science | - | 279 |
| TCD | Subject: Electrical Engineering | - | 298 |
