Seven more Taiwanese universities entered the list of the world's top 1 percent of research institutions based on their citation counts, bringing to 31 the total number of Taiwanese universities included, said a report by a local academic evaluation institution released on Friday.
The latest report by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan is based on total citation count statistics from the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database from Jan. 1, 1998, to Dec. 31 last year.
The ESI is a compilation of science performance statistics and science trends data based on journal article publication counts and citation data. It covers 22 fields of research, including agricultural sciences, biology and biochemistry, clinical medicine, economics and business, engineering, pharmacology, and plant and animal science.
Compared with the previous report released a year ago when 24 universities in Taiwan were included in the ESI list based on statistics compiled as of Dec. 31, 2007, the latest total of 31 represents an increase of 29 percent, the report said.
The seven new entrants were Fu Jen Catholic University, Tatung University, National Taipei University of Technology, Tzu Chi University, National United University, National Chi Nan University and Chaoyang University of Technology, the report said.
Among the 31, National Taiwan University (NTU) topped the list in terms of the number of research papers published and total number of citations.
ESI statistics also showed that NTU had 28,384 research papers published during the 11-year period, ranking 65th worldwide. Its total citation count was 208,246, ranking 203rd highest in the world.
The second-best performer was National Cheng Kung University, which ranked 195th with 16,237 papers and 406th with 96,845 citations.
Coming in third was National Tsing Hua University, which ranked 311th with 10,963 papers and 517th with 70,188 citations.
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