University of Wrocław getting higher and higher in the Shanghai GRAS ranking
In the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2023 (GRAS), published on October 27, the University of Wrocław ranked high among the 201-300 best universities in the world in the field of mathematics. This is an advancement from last year’s position 301-400. Only five Polish universities were included in the ranking in the discipline of mathematics. UWr ranked third in the country, after Warsaw University (ranked 101-150) and Jagiellonian University (ranked 151-200). Behind us in the 301-400 group were ex aequo Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow.
This year, UWr’s psychology was also ranked 401-500 in the GRAS. Only four Polish universities were ranked in this discipline. Jagiellonian University and SWPS University were placed 201-300. Warsaw University was also ranked, ex aequo with the UWr taking the 401-500 position.
The University of Wroclaw also maintained last year’s good position among the 401-500 best universities in the world in the discipline of ecology. The same position was claimed by Jagiellonian University, the Poznan University of Life Sciences and the H. Kołłątaj Agricultural University in Krakow. In this discipline, the first place in Poland and 201-300 in the world was earned by UAM and second in the country, 301-400 in the world is Warsaw University.
The creator of GRAS is Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, an agency best known for its Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), published since 2009. The GRAS ranking, currently covering 55 academic disciplines, began publishing in 2017. GRAS evaluates disciplines in the life sciences, medical sciences, social sciences, life sciences and technical sciences. It is a ranking to which universities do not report any data; it is taken fully automatically from Web of Science and InCites. This year’s edition takes into account bibliometric data from 2018-2022.
A total of 1,900 universities were included in the GRAS 2023 ranking, out of 5,000 that were subject to evaluation, in each of the 55 disciplines. This edition of GRAS included 23 universities from Poland.
In the GRAS ranking, 5 indicators are taken into account:
- research output – an indicator measured by the number of university publications in a given discipline in journals in the first quartile (Q1) in terms of Impact Factor;
- research influence – calculated using Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI), which is the ratio of citations of articles published by the university in a given discipline to the average number of citations of articles in the same category, published in the same year and in the same type of journals;
- international research cooperation – the ratio of joint publications with foreign authors to the total number of publications of the institution is taken into account;
- research quality – measured by the number of papers published by the institution in the top journals in the field (TOP papers);
- significant academic awards (including Nobel Prizes and Fields medals).
Congratulations to all University of Wrocław researchers in the fields of mathematics, psychology and ecology!
Translated by Dominika Augustyniak (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
