Taiwan's universities ranked among the top %1 of research institutes in the world

Submitted by fiLi on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 15:14.

Or at least, that's what Thomson Reuters suggests :

According to data derived from the ¹Essential Science Indicators SM (ESI) database of the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters, at least one Taiwan institution is ranked among the world’s top 100 in five of 22 categories, namely Agricultural Science, Chemistry, Engineering, Materials Science, and Pharmacology & Toxicology. Engineering and Materials Science were two fields in which more than one Taiwan university was represented within the top 100.

Check out their numbers: 

Taiwan
rank

World
rank

Institution

Local Name

Cites

Papers

Average
cites
per
paper

Chemistry

3

269

National Cheng Kung University

國立成功大學

3928

1035

3.8

Engineering

2

52

National Cheng Kung University

國立成功大學

3085

1832

1.68

Materials Science

3

53

National Cheng Kung University

國立成功大學

2726

1154

2.36

and all together...

All Fields

2

372

National Cheng Kung University

國立成功大學

24,162

8,463

2.86

 

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