Academic Ranking of World Universities
The much-publicized academic ranking of the world universities complied by the shanghai Jiao Tongo university, which was a large-scale Chinease project to provide independent rankings of universities around the world primarily to measure the gap between Chinese and world-class universities.
The Shanghai ranking uses a weighted composite sum. Shanghai appraises education and faculty based on Nobel- and Fields-winning alumni/faculty and highly-cited researchers. It measures research by counting non-review articles in Nature and Science, and the total number of published articles. Also, a weighted average of these indicators is adjusted for institutional size and contributes 10% to the final sum.
One of the primary criticisms of the ranking is its bias towards the natural sciences, over other subjects and science journals in the Anglosphere. This is evidenced by the inclusion of criteria such as the volume of articles published by Science or Nature (both Journals devoted to the natural sciences published in English), or the number of Nobel prize winners (which are predominantly awarded to the physical sciences) and fields Medalists (mathematics).
According to 2007 academic ranking of the world universities, the only 2 universities from Islamic world that are listed in the top 500 universities are the following:
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World rank
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Institutions
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Region
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regional rank
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Country
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national rank
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403-510
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univ. Istanbul
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Asia-Pac
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65-100
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Turkey
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1
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www.istanbul.edu.tr
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403-510
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Cairo Univ.
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Africa
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3
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Egypt
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1
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www.cu.edu.eg
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Related documents
2007 academic ranking of top 500 universities