URAP – World
University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) Research Laboratory was established at Informatics Institute of Middle East Technical University, Ankara, in 2009.
“URAP’s ranking of Top 2000 world universities is based on 6 academic performance indicators. Since URAP is an academic performance based ranking, publications constitute the basis of the ranking methodology …” (more)
The indicators are Number of Articles (21%), Citation (21%), Total Document Count (10%), Journal Impact Total (18%), Journal Citation Impact Total (15%) and International Collaboration (15%). “Data is gathered from Web of Science and other sources which provide lists of HEIs …” (more)
| World Ranking 2012 | World Ranking 2011 | World Ranking 2010 | |
| UCD | 247 | 272 | 283 |
| TCD | 280 | 294 | 281 |
| UCC | 438 | 438 | 453 |
| NUIG | 623 | 696 | 756 |
| DCU | 721 | 730 | 726 |
| UL | 866 | 921 | 848 |
| RCSI | 1019 | 954 | 1004 |
| NUIM | 1085 | 1030 | 1106 |
| DIT | 1300 | 1111 | 1306 |
| CIT | 1756 | 1744 | 1785 |
| WIT | - | 1983 | 1960 |
(Only the top 2,000 are ranked.)
The same data and methodology are also used to produce a field-based ranking.
