The University of Santiago attributes the fall in the ranking of Shanghai to the retirement of long-term professors

2023-08-15 19:31:01

The institution is no longer among the five hundred best in the world in a ranking that Harvard has led for two decades.

15 ago 2023 . Updated at 7:31 p.m.

The Universidade de Santiago went from being among the five hundred best universities in the world in one year in it rnking ARWU, known as from Shanghi, to be in the range of 601 to 700which has led the University of Vigo —the University of A Corua does not appear among the first thousand— to surpass the USC by remaining between positions 501 and 600. The institution blame the decline In this classification, which measures research activity and in which merits such as having Nobel prizes or Field medals are scored, to the renovation of your teaching staff, which was very old, when professors with long-term profiles, highly cited and with intense scientific production, retired. This forced renewal means that young people, as is logical, have not yet accumulated such a high research performance as to score in the ranking indicators.

However, the institution achieves its historical high in one of the parameters that analyze the results of the investigation, specifically the one that responds to the number of items published in the prestigious magazines Nature y Science.

For the twenty first consecutive year, sit to the head of this classification the private university of Harvardin the United States, and in fact among the top ten there are only two universities from the United Kingdom (Cambridge and Oxford), while the rest are all American.

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