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The University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice has once again been ranked among the top Czech universities in the recently published Leiden Ranking, which compares the publication performance of universities worldwide. The comparison focuses on four aspects of this performance: scientific impact in the form of publication response, international cooperation, the extent of open access and gender diversity of authors. The Leiden Rankings are published in two editions: a traditional edition, based on data from the Web of Science database, and, from 2024, an open edition, based on open data. The numbers we present below are based on the traditional edition and are based on data from 2020-2023.
The main indicator of the Leiden Ranking has traditionally been the proportion of articles in percentiles by citation. Ranked universities can be viewed in a list ordered by the number or percentage of publications in the first, fifth, tenth, and fiftieth percentiles.
Of the ten Czech universities represented, USB reigns supreme in the share of exceptionally cited publications (first percentile), with 2.1%, followed by Charles University (2.1%) and the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (1.9%). In the European comparison, USB ranks 144th and 305th worldwide. In the tenth percentile, the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague leads the ranking this year, as it did in the previous year. Again with USB remaining in the top positions. The top-ranked majors at the University of South Bohemia are Life and Earth Sciences.
Globally, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the top-ranked university this year, followed by Stanford and Princeton University.
Another first place among Czech universities belongs to USB in terms of the rate of collaboration (94.5% of publications with a co-author from another institution), which supports the theory that collaboration has a positive influence on extraordinary citation rates. USB also dominates with the highest percentage in terms of international collaboration, reaching 70.1%.
According to the traditional edition of the Leiden Ranking, 39.1% of USB publications have been published in gold open access mode (publications are openly available from the moment they are published in an open access or hybrid journal) and 8% in green open access mode (authors simultaneously publish the final version of a publication in an open access publication repository), with the former figure steadily increasing over the long term. USB is thus following the global trend of open science in this respect.
The rankings are produced by the renowned Centre for Science and Technology Studies, an institute in Leiden, one of Europe's most respected centres for meta-research and scientometrics.
