
World University rankings
League tables of university excellence have been around since 2003 when the first world ranking of universities was produced by Shanghai Jia Tong University. The Academic Ranking of World Universities is often referred to as the Shanghai tables or ranking.
This was followed in 2004 by the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings.
QS World University Rankings were first produced in 2009.
Citation data features strongly in the methodologies used by Shanghai, THE and QS.
In terms of THE for example, citations are the broadest category with a weighting of just under a third of the overall score.
My RI by University College Dublin, Dublin City University, Dublin Institute of Technology, The National University
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