The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore has been ranked as the world’s top research university ahead of the likes of Princeton and Harvard. IISc Bangalore has scored a perfect 100 on 100 on the metric of citations per faculty (CPF) indicator.
QS World University Rankings 2022, which was released on Wednesday, has been done among 13,000 varsities, 145 more than in last year’s edition, from across 197 locations this year.
IIT-Guwahati too emerged as a top research institution from India, being ranked 41st for CPF among the top 50 globally. The results accounted for the distribution and performance of 14.7 million academic papers published between 2015 and 2019, and the 96 million citations received by those papers.