Korean Universities Get Poor Scores in Paper Evaluation
By Kang Shin-who
Staff Reporter
Only one Korean university has been ranked among the world's top 100 universities in scientific papers performance.
According to the Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan, Seoul National University (SNU) placed 85th in the "2009 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities."
The Taiwanese institute has assessed and ranked scientific paper performance for the world's top 500 universities since 2007.
It uses three criteria represented by eight indicators to evaluate a university's overall scientific paper performance: research productivity, which accounts for 20 percent of the total score, research impact, accounting for 30 percent, and research excellence, 50 percent.
Harvard topped the list with a total score of 96.14, followed by Johns Hopkins University at 52.67 and Stanford University at 51.63. SNU's score came to 21.76. Among other Korean universities, Yonsei University and Korea University ranked 200th and 238th, respectively.
Following those, KAIST, POSTEK, Hanyang University, Pusan National University, Kyungpook National University and Sungkyunkwan University were ranked among the top 500 universities.