VSB-TUO makes its mark again in the Leiden Ranking

"The ranking evaluates four key areas: scientific impact, collaboration, open access publications, and gender diversity. It offers insights into universities' performance not just overall, but also across five main disciplines: Biomedical and Health Sciences, Life and Earth Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science, Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Social Sciences and Humanities. Unlike other rankings, it does not consider academic reputation or teaching quality. Instead, it allows users to create a ranking based on various indicators," explained Kateřina Angus, International Evaluation and Rankings Officer at VSB-TUO.

In the "Proportion of international collaborative publications" category, which measures the proportion of university’s publications that have been co-authored with researchers from two or more countries, VSB-TUO ranks 290th globally and fifth among Czech universities, with 63.1 per cent of such works. Particularly in the field of Mathematics and Computer Science, VSB-TUO excels with 69.9 per cent of collaborative publications, placing it first domestically and 97th in Europe. It is also above 60 per cent in Physical Sciences and Engineering, ranking sixth among Czech universities.

Between 2019 and 2022, VSB-TUO published 5.4% of its papers in collaboration with industrial organisations, an improvement from the previous year's 5.1 per cent. This places it seventh nationally and 858th globally. Within specific disciplines, the highest rate of industrial collaboration was in Physical Sciences and Engineering, where 7.6 per cent of publications involved industrial partners—the best result among the nine assessed Czech universities.

In terms of scientific impact, VSB-TUO received the same score as in the previous year, with 4.1% of its articles appearing in the top decile of journals. Significant improvements were recorded in Mathematics and Computer Science, Life and Earth Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities.

VSB-TUO also achieved significant success in gold open access publications, ranking 100th globally. Domestically, it led with 50.1 per cent of its publications being gold open access. Exceptional performance was noted in Mathematics and Computer Sciences (59.6 per cent) and Biomedical and Health Sciences (56.5 per cent).

The CWTS Leiden Ranking is compiled by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Other Czech universities featured in the ranking include  Brno University of Technology, Charles University, Masaryk University, Palacký University Olomouc, the Czech Technical University in Prague, the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, and the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice,

The full list of the Leiden Ranking 2024 results is available here.

Text: Martina Šaradínová, PR Specialist for R&D

Photo - source: CWTS Leiden Ranking