The ShanghaiRanking's Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) focuses primarily on the scientific and research performance of individual universities. As ARWU indicators are based on absolute values, they tend to penalize universities with fewer students and employees.
The ranking was first published in 2003. Masaryk University has been ranked since 2017.
In the current ARWU ranking published in August 2023, Masaryk University is ranked 401st–500th, second within the Czech Republic. Masaryk University and Charles University are the only representatives in the TOP500 from the Czech Republic.
ARWU ranking indicators and weights:
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Indicator |
Weight |
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Quality of Education |
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Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals |
10% |
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Quality of Staff |
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Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals |
20% |
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Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories according to Clarivate |
20% |
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Research results |
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Articles indexed by the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) in the previous year (only "Articles" taken into account) |
20% |
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Articles published in Nature and Science in the past five years (only "Articles" taken into account) |
20% |
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Per capita academic performance |
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Per capita academic performance of an institution (weighted score of the five above mentioned indicators – calculated per academic employee) |
10% |
Subject rankings:
In addition to ARWU, Shanghai Ranking also publishes Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.
These subject rankings are based on 5 indicators: the number of articles published in journals ranked in Q1 according to the Journal Impact Factor, the proportion of citations of published articles to the average citation rate in the same category according to InCites, the proportion of publications published in collaboration with a foreign co-author, the number of articles published in prestigious journals, and the number of academics who have received prestigious awards in their field while employed at the university. The use and weights of these indicators differ depending on the subject.
In 2023, the results of the evaluation were published for total of 55 fields, MU ranks in 13 of them, in the following positions:
151-200 - Environmental Science & Engineering
151-200 - Geography
201-300 - Law
201-300 - Ecology
301-400 - Political Sciences
301-400 - Agricultural Sciences
301-400 - Earth Sciences
301-400 - Medical Technology
401-500 - Biotechnology
401-500 - Psychology
401-500 - Biological Sciences
401-500 - Clinical Medicine
401-500 - Public Health