September 9, 2003 - Today's Other News Items

UO Ranked With Best in Published Research

A Swiss research center has ranked the University of Oregon 44th among the world's universities in terms of publications impact. UO earned the ranking based on the number of published research articles its faculty had placed in top scholarly magazines and journals from 1994 to 1999.

The comprehensive study was done last year by the Swiss-based Center for Science and Technology Studies (CEST), an organization that develops and assesses information for Swiss government policy decisions in the fields of research, higher education and innovation. The group's purpose was to examine how Swiss colleges and universities rank in comparison with institutions around the world.

UO achieved its high ranking through a combination of the quantity of published articles, number of disciplines and subfields they represented, and the quality of the publications in which they appeared. For example, articles appearing in Science, Nature, Cell and other leading publications received the highest impact points. Another criteria was the frequency that these articles were cited in additional journals and field publications.

Other U.S. institutions in the top echelon of the study were Harvard, Stanford, Cal Tech, USC and University of California, Berkeley. Ranked lower than UO were UCLA, University of Arizona, Arizona State, University of California, Irvine, and University of Colorado.