Methodology

45% Research performance. We use the OpenAlex database as a proxy to retrieve scientific publications and links between them (citations). Rather than just summarizing them, we build a graph with publications as nodes and citations as edges to calculate the weight of each publication. Then we adjust that weight for the publication date and share of university representatives in the list of authors.

45% Non-academic prominence. We use the same approach that Google and other modern search engines use to calculate the reputation of individual web pages – backlinks to a university from other sites. We use the data from Ahrefs as a source with the largest available index of pages and links.

10% Alumni score. The indicator reflects the combined number of page views that a university’s graduates and other affiliated individuals have on all 43 language versions of Wikipedia.