CWTS Leiden 2024 ranking highlights University of Algarve in several indicators

The CWTS Leiden 2024 ranking, which includes 1506 universities from 72 countries and assesses the quantity and impact of international scientific publications, places the University of the Algarve (UAlg) in position 180 at European level and 496 at world level.
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These positions are the result of the indicator that uses the proportion of the University's publications that, in comparison with other publications in the same field and in the same year, belong to the 10% most cited, allowing institutions to be compared regardless of their size.

This prestigious ranking also places UAlg well in terms of the quality and quantity of scientific publications in the areas of Biomedical and Health Sciences (185 out of 462 in Europe and 363 out of 1534 worldwide), Life and Earth Sciences (172 out of 420 in Europe and 502 out of 1273 worldwide) and Physical and Engineering Sciences (189 out of 452 in Europe and 620 out of 1393 worldwide).

In terms of collaboration, measured by publications in partnership with other universities, UAlg ranks 58 in Europe and 118 worldwide, and in international collaborative publications UAlg performs very well, ranking 47 in Europe and 98 worldwide.

UAlg's biggest highlight in this ranking is gender equality, as it ranks 20th in Europe and 23rd worldwide for having a high proportion of scientific publications by female authors in relation to the total number of male and female publications.

About the CWTS Leiden ranking:

The CWTS Leiden 2024 ranking includes universities that published at least 800 scientific or review articles in the period 2019-2022 in international scientific journals, excluding books, conference proceedings and publications in non-indexed journals.

For a publication to be eligible for this ranking, it must be written in English, have one or more authors (anonymous publications are not accepted), not have been rectified and be published in a leading journal.

The publications on which the Leiden Ranking is based represent a subset of the publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded, the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

These criteria exclude around a sixth of Web of Science publications and aim to ensure that a relatively homogeneous set of publications is used for a better international comparison of universities.

More information on this ranking can be found here