Universities from Germany and the 2015 edition of the Shanghai ranking

DC Technical Report 09/2015 Universities from Germany and the 2015 edition of the Shanghai ranking D. Docampo L. Cram December 15, 2015. Abstract The emergence of international academic rankings is one of the most interesting phenomena in the field of comparative analysis of higher education. Once we have found a way to accurately replicate the results of the ranking, we are in a position to shed light into the performance of whole University systems. This report presents the results of 83 universities from Germany in ARWU 2015. Keywords Academic rankings Shanghai arwu world class universities German universities Germany German Higher Education System 1 Introduction The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) a.k.a the Shanghai Ranking, evaluates the research performance of academic institutions on the basis of numerical measures related to individual outstanding achievements and institutional research throughput. A first hand account of the Shanghai ranking indicators can be found in Liu and Cheng (2005), and is summarized in Docampo (2013). A reliable account of the ranking procedures can be found in Docampo and Cram (2014). For a guided tour into the computation of the ranking scores (2015 edition of ARWU) the reader is referred to Docampo and Cram (2015). This report analyzes the performance of 83 universities from Germany in ARWU 2015 (40 of them are included in ARWU 500). To collect the necessary data for the computation of the ARWU raw scores, we have checked the electronic sources shown in Section 2. Results are present in Section 4. 2 Electronic sources Data were gathered from the following Electronic Sources: ARWU data from http://www.arwu.org Domingo Docampo Universidade de Vigo, Atlantic Research Center for Information and Communication Technologies; Campus Universitario, 36310 Vigo, Spain. E-mail: ddocampo@uvigo.es On sabatical at Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian Natl University, Acton ACT 0200, Australia. Australia. E-mail: ddocampo@cdu.edu.au Lawrence Cram Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian Natl University, Acton ACT 0200, Australia. E-mail: Lawrence.Cram@anu.edu.au Charles Darwin University, Northern Institute, Ellengowan Drive, Brinkin NT 0909 E-mail: Lawrence.Cram@cdu.edu.au

2 Nobel Prize Laureates available at http://nobelprize.org/ Data on Field Medalists available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fields Medal Data on Highly Cited Authors available at http://highlycited.com/ Data on scientific production available at http://www.webofknowledge.com. Preprint copies of published articles related to this technical report are available at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/lawrence Cram/contributions/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/domingo Docampo/contributions/ 3 Affiliation names Names are shown in Table 2. Some disambiguation problems with affiliations may still persist, so we warmly invite comments on any apparent errors or uncertainties in the list of institutional name variants that comprise the WOK OG names.arwu does not use FTE figures for Germany, so all universities from this country are treated as if they had the same Full Time Equivalent Staff (890). This obviously benefits large institutions and penalizes small universities in the computation of the PCP indicator. 4 Results We show in this report results corresponding to 83 Higher Education institutions from Germany in the 2015 edition of ARWU. It is worth mentioning that the entrance score in the 500 universities was close to 9.6. We have reproduced the results of the ARWU webpage in the case of the universities ranked below 500. The rest of the scores have been computed using the procedures documented in Docampo and Cram (2015). We have included two universities currently not ranked by ARWU, both located in Berlin. We have split the points accrued in both Alumni and Awd to the University of Berlin equally into the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin. We have also tried our best to include papers listed as Charite University in the Web of Knowledge. In Table 1 we show the distribution of German universities in ARWU 2007 (at the beginning of the Excellence Initiative) and ARWU 2015. We have included the two Berlin universities in the table. ARWU Tier 2007 2015 1-50 0 1 51-100 5 3 101-150 7 6 150-200 3 5 201-300 8 8 301-400 14 7 401-500 5 11 Table 1: German Universities in ARWU 2007 and ARWU 2015 In this technical report we show the ranking of the universities both within the local Higher Education System (columns 9 and 10 in the tables that follow) and the global ARWU position as well (final column), among 3500 universities worldwide. Table 3 shows the results for universities clasified up to 1000 in ARWU 2015. Table 4 shows the results for the remaining universities.

3 References Docampo D (2013) Reproducibility of the Shanghai academic ranking of world universities results. Scientometrics 94(2):567 587 Docampo D, Cram L (2014) On the Internal Dynamics of the Shanghai ranking. Scientometrics 98(2):1347 1366 Docampo D, Cram L (2015) A guided tour into the computation of the Shanghai ranking indicator scores (2015 edition). Tech. rep., University of Vigo and Australian National University, DOI 10.13140/RG.2.1.1426.8240, URL https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286450865 Liu NC, Cheng Y (2005) Academic ranking of world universities: Methodologies and problems. Higher Education in Europe, 30(2):127 136 Affiliation Name Bauhaus University, Weimar Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg University of Technology Bundeswehr University Munich Chemnitz University of Technology Clausthal University of Technology Dortmund University of Technology Dresden University of Technology Fontys University of Applied Sciences Free University of Berlin Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Hamburg University of Technology Hannover Medical School Helmut Schmidt University Humboldt University of Berlin Ilmenau University of Technology Jacobs University of Bremen Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Leuphana University Luneburg RWTH Aachen University Saarland University Technical University Darmstadt Technical University Munich Technical University of Berlin Technical University of Braunschweig Technical University of Freiberg Trier University of Applied Sciences University of Augsburg University of Bamberg University of Bayreuth University of Bielefeld University of Bochum University of Bonn University of Bremen University of Dusseldorf University of Duisburg-Essen University of Erfurt University of Erlangen-Nuremberg University of Frankfurt University of Freiburg University of Giessen WOK og name bauhaus univ weimar hochschule bonn rhein sieg brandenburg university of technology cottbus univ bundeswehr munchen tech univ chemnitz tu clausthal dortmund university of technology dresden university of technology fontys univ appl sci free university of berlin hochschule angewandte wissenschaft hamburg hamburg university of technology hannover medical school helmut schmidt univ humboldt university of berlin technische universitat ilmenau jacobs university karlsruhe institute of technology leuphana university luneburg rwth aachen university saarland university darmstadt university of technology technical university of munich technical university of berlin braunschweig university of technology technical university freiberg trier univ appl sci university of augsburg otto friedrich univ bamberg university of bayreuth university of bielefeld ruhr university bochum university of bonn university of bremen heinrich heine university dusseldorf university of duisburg essen univ erfurt university of erlangen nuremberg goethe university frankfurt university of freiburg justus liebig university giessen

4 Affiliation Name University of Gottingen University of Greifswald University of Halle-Wittenberg University of Hamburg University of Hannover University of Heidelberg University of Hildesheim University of Hohenheim University of Jena University of Kaiserslautern University of Kassel University of Kiel University of Koblenz University of Koeln University of Konstanz University of Leipzig University of Lubeck University of Magdeburg University of Mainz University of Mannheim University of Marburg University of Muenster University of Munich University of Oldenburg University of Osnabruck University of Paderborn University of Passau University of Potsdam University of Regensburg University of Rostock University of Siegen University of Stuttgart University of Trier University of Tuebingen University of Ulm University of Weimar University of Wurzburg University of Wuppertal University of Hagen Viadrina University Witten Herdecke University Zeppelin University WOK og name university of gottingen ernst moritz arndt universitat greifswald martin luther university halle wittenberg university of hamburg university of hannover ruprecht karl university heidelberg univ hildesheim university hohenheim friedrich schiller university of jena university of kaiserslautern univ kassel university of kiel univ koblenz landau university of cologne university of konstanz university of leipzig university of lubeck otto von guericke university johannes gutenberg university of mainz university of mannheim philipps university marburg university of munster university of munich carl von ossietzky universitat oldenburg univ osnabruck univ paderborn univ passau university of potsdam university of regensburg university of rostock univ siegen university of stuttgart univ trier eberhard karls university of tubingen university of ulm bauhaus univ weimar university of wurzburg univ wuppertal fern university hagen european university viadrina frankfurt oder witten herdecke university zeppelin univ Table 2: List of German Universities analyzed in this report: affiliation name and Thomson Reuters organizations enhanced name

5 ARWU INDICATORS AND FINAL SCORE ARWU 2015 ranking INSTITUTION Alu Awd HICI N&S PUB PCP score DEU GLOBAL Univ Heidelberg 19.9 25.3 23.7 29.4 51.7 34.2 32.2 1 46 Tech Univ Munich 34.8 21.6 22.3 23.2 48.3 32.3 30.5 2 51 Univ Munich 25.6 19.1 20.3 28.9 50.7 32.6 30.3 3 52 Univ Bonn 15.4 19.8 17.4 21.1 39.8 25.9 24.3 4 97 Free Univ Berlin 12.6 10.5 10.7 22.1 53.2 29.2 24.0 5 101-150 Univ Freiburg 18.5 18.8 13.0 24.4 37.9 25.3 23.8 6 101-150 Univ Goettingen 30.8 14.9 13.1 20.0 38.9 25.6 23.6 7 101-150 Univ Frankfurt 30.3 0.0 19.6 21.2 37.7 25.3 21.8 8 101-150 Humboldt Univ Berlin 12.6 10.5 0.0 21.4 52.2 28.2 21.4 9 101-150 Univ Muenster 19.2 13.3 14.8 14.7 36.0 22.2 20.4 10 101-150 Univ Tuebingen 22.4 0.0 12.2 17.4 41.1 23.7 19.2 11 151-200 Univ Hamburg 11.5 0.0 13.9 21.7 36.6 22.1 18.2 12 151-200 Univ Koeln 0.0 0.0 8.6 19.3 37.1 21.5 17.9 13 151-200 Univ Wurzburg 19.2 0.0 18.9 15.0 33.3 21.1 17.9 13 151-200 Univ Kiel 10.3 13.3 13.8 13.7 29.7 18.8 17.4 15 151-200 Univ Erlangen-Nuremberg 0.0 0.0 15.9 14.5 39.7 21.9 16.6 16 201-300 Univ Mainz 0.0 7.7 8.9 15.9 35.2 20.1 15.9 17 201-300 Dresden Univ Technol 0.0 0.0 10.7 14.6 40.8 21.7 15.8 18 201-300 Karlsruhe Inst Technol 0.0 0.0 12.0 14.9 37.2 20.3 15.2 19 201-300 RWTH Aachen Univ 0.0 0.0 16.3 6.3 40.6 21.6 15.2 19 201-300 Univ Leipzig 11.5 13.3 0.0 9.3 33.8 18.6 14.6 21 201-300 Univ Marburg 10.3 0.0 14.3 13.4 28.5 17.1 14.3 22 201-300 Univ Stuttgart 18.5 0.0 10.1 12.2 26.7 16.3 13.6 23 201-300 Univ Bochum 0.0 0.0 13.3 7.4 34.9 18.5 13.3 24 301-400 Univ Ulm 0.0 0.0 12.3 12.6 30.9 17.4 13.2 25 301-400 Univ Dusseldorf 11.5 0.0 6.1 9.6 31.5 17.0 12.6 26 301-400 Univ Giessen 0.0 0.0 12.3 9.9 30.8 17.0 12.6 26 301-400 Tech Univ Berlin 16.2 0.0 7.8 7.4 29.1 16.5 12.4 28 301-400 Univ Duisburg-Essen 0.0 0.0 8.6 9.7 30.6 16.1 11.7 29 301-400 Hannover Medical School 0.0 0.0 8.7 7.9 31.4 16.8 11.6 30 301-400 Tech Univ Darmstadt 14.5 0.0 3.6 7.6 27.8 15.0 11.0 31 401-500 Univ Halle-Wittenberg 0.0 6.7 3.6 9.4 25.9 14.0 10.8 32 401-500 Univ Regensburg 0.0 0.0 3.6 13.9 27.7 15.2 10.8 32 401-500 Univ Bielefeld 0.0 0.0 11.8 8.6 24.8 14.0 10.7 34 401-500 Univ Konstanz 0.0 0.0 12.1 11.4 22.2 13.5 10.7 34 401-500 Univ Jena 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.3 34.0 17.1 10.6 36 401-500 Univ Bremen 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.1 29.1 15.7 10.5 37 401-500 Univ Hannover 0.0 0.0 8.6 10.6 24.8 13.8 10.4 38 401-500 Univ Bayreuth 0.0 0.0 8.6 13.3 21.5 13.0 10.2 39 401-500 Univ Rostock 0.0 0.0 8.6 8.4 25.0 13.5 10.0 40 401-500 Tech Univ Braunschweig 12.6 0.0 3.6 8.6 22.3 12.6 9.6 41 401-500 Univ Potsdam 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.7 25.0 13.4 8.9 42 601-700 Saarland Univ 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.9 27.8 13.9 8.5 43 601-700 Univ Hohenheim 0.0 0.0 12.3 3.6 19.2 11.5 8.4 44 601-700 Univ Greifswald 0.0 0.0 3.6 7.5 22.7 11.9 8.1 45 601-700 Dortmund Univ Technol 0.0 0.0 3.6 5.7 23.1 11.8 7.8 46 601-700 Univ Oldenburg 0.0 0.0 5.0 6.8 18.8 10.3 7.3 47 601-700 Univ Wuppertal 0.0 0.0 10.1 2.1 15.9 9.2 6.7 48 701-800 Univ Magdeburg 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.7 23.5 11.5 6.5 49 801-900 Univ Lubeck 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.4 17.8 9.4 6.1 50 901-1000 Univ Kaiserslautern 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 18.7 9.5 6.0 51 901-1000 Table 3: German Universities in ARWU (1-1000) 2015

6 ARWU INDICATORS AND FINAL SCORE ARWU 2015 ranking INSTITUTION Alu Awd HICI N&S PUB PCP score DEU GLOBAL Univ Augsburg 0.0 0.0 3.6 5.9 14.3 7.9 5.7 52 1001-1250 Hamburg Univ Technol 0.0 0.0 3.6 5.2 13.1 7.3 5.2 53 1001-1250 Univ Siegen 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.3 16.2 8.3 5.2 53 1001-1250 Univ Osnabruck 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.6 15.0 7.6 4.8 55 1001-1250 Univ Paderborn 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.2 14.7 7.6 4.8 55 1001-1250 Ilmenau Univ Technol 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 13.6 7.4 4.6 57 1001-1250 Univ Kassel 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5 16.8 8.2 4.6 57 1001-1250 Univ Mannheim 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 18.0 8.7 4.6 57 1001-1250 Jacobs Univ Bremen 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.1 13.6 7.0 4.6 57 1251-1500 Chemnitz Univ Technol 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5 15.9 7.7 4.4 61 1001-1250 Leuphana Univ Luneburg 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.5 13.9 6.9 4.1 62 1251-1500 Tech Univ Freiberg 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.6 7.6 4.0 63 1251-1500 Univ Trier 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.1 13.2 6.5 3.8 64 1251-1500 Witten Herdecke Univ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.9 7.2 3.8 64 1251-1500 Brandenburg Univ Technol 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5 13.2 6.4 3.7 66 1251-1500 Univ Koblenz 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.5 11.1 5.5 3.4 67 1501-2000 Univ Bamberg 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.3 10.8 5.5 3.4 67 1501-2000 Clausthal Univ Technol 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.5 5.6 2.9 69 1501-2000 Fontys Univ Applied Sciences 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 5.9 4.5 2.7 70 2001-2500 Bundeswehr Univ Munich 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.6 7.3 3.9 2.6 71 2001-2500 Univ of Hagen 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.8 3.8 2.0 72 2501-3000 Bauhaus Univ, Weimar 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.2 3.5 1.8 73 2501-3000 Univ Weimar 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.2 3.5 1.8 73 2501-3000 Univ Passau 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.1 3.4 1.8 75 2501-3000 Viadrina Univ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.0 3.4 1.8 75 2501-3000 Univ Hildesheim 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.6 3.2 1.7 77 2501-3000 Helmut Schmidt Univ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.2 3.0 1.6 78 2501-3000 Zeppelin Univ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 2.9 1.5 79 >3000 Hamburg Univ Appl Sci 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 2.4 1.3 80 >3000 Univ Erfurt 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.1 2.5 1.3 80 >3000 Bonn-Rhein-Sieg Univ of Appl Sci 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5 3.6 1.9 1.2 82 >3000 Trier Univ Appl Sci 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.3 2.8 1.8 1.2 82 >3000 Table 4: German Universities in ARWU (1001-3000) 2015