CWTS Leiden Ranking 2015

Wed May 20 16:06:34 EDT 2015

Dear Loet,

Yes, your understanding is correct. MNCS, TNCS, PP(top 10%), P(top 10%), and the other field-normalized impact indicators all use the 4000 fields for the purpose of normalization. The Web of Science subject categories are not used.

Unfortunately, the 4000 fields are not visible. Because these fields are defined at the level of individual publications rather than at the journal level, there is no easy way to make the fields visible. This is something that hopefully can be improved in the future.

We have decided to move from 800 to 4000 fields because our analyses indicate that with 800 fields there still is too much heterogeneity in citation density within fields. A detailed analysis of the effect of performing field normalization at different levels of aggregation is reported in the following paper by Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Ludo Waltman: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.11.010. In this paper, it is also shown that at the level of entire universities field-normalized impact indicators are quite insensitive to the choice of an aggregation level.

Best regards,
Nees Jan

From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff
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Dear Nees Jan,

As always impressive! Thank you.

Are the approximately 4,000 fields also visible in one way or another? Do I correctly understand that MNCS is defined in relation to these 4,000 fields and not to the 251 WCs? Is there a concordance table between the fields and WCs as there is between WCs and five broad fields in the Excel sheet?

I think that I understand from your and Ludo's previous publications how the 4,000 fields are generated. Why are there 4,000 such fields in 2015, and 800+ in 2014? Isn't it amazing that trends can despite the discontinuities be smooth? Or are indicators robust across these scales?

Best wishes,
Loet

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Loet Leydesdorff
Emeritus University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
loet at leydesdorff.net <mailto:loet at leydesdorff.net> ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/
Honorary Professor, SPRU, <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/> University of Sussex;
Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ.<http://www.zju.edu.cn/english/>, Hangzhou; Visiting Professor, ISTIC, <http://www.istic.ac.cn/Eng/brief_en.html> Beijing;
Visiting Professor, Birkbeck<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/>, University of London;
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en

From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Eck, N.J.P. van
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Subject: [SIGMETRICS] CWTS Leiden Ranking 2015

Release of the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2015
Today CWTS has released the 2015 edition of the Leiden Ranking. The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2015 offers key insights into the scientific performance of 750 major universities worldwide. A sophisticated set of bibliometric indicators provides statistics on the scientific impact of universities and on universities' involvement in scientific collaboration. The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2015 is based on Web of Science indexed publications from the period 2010-2013.

Improvements and new features in the 2015 edition
Compared with the 2014 edition of the Leiden Ranking, the 2015 edition includes a number of enhancements. First of all, the 2015 edition offers the possibility to perform trend analyses. Bibliometric statistics are available not only for the period 2010-2013 but also for earlier periods. Second, the 2015 edition of the Leiden Ranking provides new impact indicators based on counting publications that belong to the top 1% or top 50% of their field. And third, improvements have been made to the presentation of the ranking. Size-dependent indicators are presented in a more prominent way, and it is possible to obtain a convenient one-page overview of all bibliometric statistics for a particular university.

Differences with other university rankings
Compared with other university rankings, the Leiden Ranking offers more advanced indicators of scientific impact and collaboration and uses a more transparent methodology. The Leiden Ranking does not rely on highly subjective data obtained from reputational surveys or on data provided by universities themselves. Also, the Leiden Ranking refrains from aggregating different dimensions of university performance into a single overall indicator.

Website
The Leiden Ranking is available at www.leidenranking.com<http://www.leidenranking.com>.

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Researcher
Head of ICT

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Leiden University
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