UM PERFORMS WELL IN INTERNATIONAL RANKING

30. July 2022. 16:50

The number of internationally recognised scientific articles published at the University of Miskolc has increased by almost 30% in the last three years, while the number of citations per researcher has doubled in the last two years. These aspects play a role in determining a university's position in the QS world ranking. In the international ranking published in June 2022, the University of Miskolc maintained its position.

 

 

The number of ranked universities has increased from 1,300 to 1,462 over the past year, and the University of Miskolc has maintained its position in this gradually expanding list, ranked between 1,001 and 1,200. Last year, meaning it is in the top 70% of universities monitored by QS worldwide

To be included in the world ranking, university staff must have published more than 1,000 Scopus articles in the last five years. In the last three years, the number of Scopus articles at the University of Miskolc has increased by almost 30%, from 1,138 to 1,444. The number of independent Scopus citations per faculty member/researcher has increased from 3.90 to 7.82, nearly doubling. Scopus is one of the world's largest abstract and citation databases of multidisciplinary peer-reviewed literature and scholarly web resources, with a record 45.5 million bibliographic and citation records in engineering, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.