KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Ranking. Per-Anders Östling

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1 KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Ranking Per-Anders Östling

2 World Class University World class universities are seen as necessary for economic development, growth, competitiveness, innovation and sustainable society, and, above all, as the engine in the new knowledge economy Research heavy and conduct high quality research with an emphasis on excellence Requires large resources to create a creative learning environment and advanced, cutting edge research High percentage of students at the advanced level (high percentage of talent) A high proportion of internationalization Prestige / reputation

3 Why rankings are important Recruitment of international students and faculty Alumni employability Opportunities for cooperation with other world class universities and large multinational companies Assert itself in the international competition for external research funding as well as in investment in excellence Hugh influence on political decisions (policy), policymakers and the media Prestige and visibility Easy accessible way to show what a research and educational system/university performs

4 Indicators, what measures the rankings? Reputation: Research and education Research: research productivity, research impact and research excellens that are measured by bibliometric indicators (number of publications, citations per faculty, number of citations, field normalized citation rate, the average number of citations, share/ number of highly cited publications, top ten percent, number of articles in High Impact journals, H-Index etc.) and how successfully the university is to attract external funds, prizes & research achievements, etc. Education: Percentage of students at the advanced level, number of students per teacher, throughput, retention, income per teacher, number of degrees etc. Internationalization: Proportion of international faculty, proportion of international students and international co-publication Knowledge transfer: Co-publication with industry, income from industry, patents, etc.,

5 Rank positions, a selection THE: 126 (2013: 117) QS: 110 (2013: 118) Engineering & Technology THE: 30 (2013:27) QS: 33 (2013:27) US News & World Report: 29 QS Subject rankings Mechanical Engineering: 22 (2013: 21) Electrical Engineering 31: (2013: 24) Civil & Structural Engineering: 46 (2013: 41) Materials Science: 48 (2013: )

6 Strengths KTH A very high production of publications per faculty and researchers A very high proportion of co-publication with researchers from other international universities and industry High proportion of international researchers, teachers and students Ranked in eleven different subjects (four in the top 50) Strongest subjects: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science KTH publications based on large collaborative networks are cited very well. Publications with more than 100 authors have a very high citation rate Relatively high average citation rates in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Relatively strong reputation in research and education. Stronger reputation than we are performing in bibliometric indicators

7 Weakneses KTH Performs moderately in indicators measuring research impact, and research excellence Relatively low field normalized citation rate, regardless of the outcome are fractionalized or not, among the best Relatively few very highly citied articles and relatively few articles in High Impact Journals Fairly few publications among the top ten percent or top one percent. Top ten percent: KTH 9.5%, DTU 14.1% Fairly low citation impact of publications with one hundred or fewer authors, especially when it's one to ten writers (89 percent of all KTH publications)

8 Weaknesses KTH Mediocre impact when all writers have Swedish addresses. The citation level for national publications is about 25 percent lower than it is for the international To be among the top universities, such as the DTU, KTH citation impact must significantly be improved in all subjects

9 Publications ITM Publications in DiVA Fractionalized Year Total WoS coverage Article, peer review % Article, other % Conference paper, pee % Conference paper, othe % Book % Anthology (editor) % Chapter in book % Article, book review % Proceeding (editor) % Report % Doctorate thesis % Licentiate thesis %

10 Citations Citations 3 year window P frac C3 frac C3 mean frac Total

11 Field normalized citation rate and top ten percent Field normalized citations Fractionalized (3 year moving average) P frac cf Ptop10% Ptop10% Count Share % % % % Total %

12 Journal Impact Journal impact (3 year moving average) P frac Jcf frac Jtop20% sum Jtop20% share (frac) (frac) % % % % % Total %

13 Co-publishing Co publishing Internationally and with Swedish non university organizations (3 year moving average) P full Swe. non univ. International Count Share Count Share % % % % % % % % % % Total % %