How does the Leiden Ranking differ from other university rankings?
The Leiden Ranking offers a
responsible approach to university ranking
.
We recognize that universities are complex organizations that have a variety of forms, contexts, and missions, which means that representing
the performance of a university in a single number does not make sense. Unlike other well-known university rankings, the Leiden Ranking
therefore presents a variety of indicators, enabling the performance of universities to be explored from a diversity of perspectives.
The exclusive focus on the scientific performance of universities also distinguishes the Leiden Ranking from other university rankings.
Other aspects of the performance of universities, in particular their contribution to teaching, are not considered in the Leiden Ranking.
Unlike other university rankings, the Leiden Ranking is based entirely on bibliographic data on scientific publications.
It relies on a
sophisticated approach to data collection
and provides a set of
advanced bibliometric indicators
.