The University of the Philippines landed at the 401 to 500 bracket of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2021 edition. Aside from the overall rankings, THE also provides rankings by subject.

In the clinical, pre-clinical, and health rankings for 2020, UP surprisingly outranked Ivy League school Harvard University as well as prestigious institutions like University of Oxford, Stanford University, and University of Cambridge when it comes to the Citations weightings.

Under this benchmark, UP earned a score of 91.9, a huge gap from Oxford’s 74.0, Stanford’s 73.3, Cambridge’s 68.8, and Harvard’s 66.7. According to THE, the score for Citations make up 35 percent of the overall rankings (overall, UP is at the 121-150 bracket for this subject).

The Citations or research influence,  according to THE’s explanation, is measured based on the “university’s role in spreading new knowledge and ideas.”

This looks at the number of times a published work from a certain university has been cited by other bodies of research across the globe. Being cited means that  the research in this particular subject (in this case, clinical, pre-clinical, and health) was significant enough to catch the attention of other scholars and contribute to the collective knowledge in that field. 

As the health science campus of the UP System, much of this high citation rating is attributed to the high research productivity and integrity of UP Manila researchers in the clinical, health, and pre-clinical areas.

UP duplicated this feat in 2019 with a score of 98.8 and in 2020 with a score of 91.9 where it was ranked 7th and 8th, respectively. Those years, UP outranked prestigious universities, such as Harvard University, University of Oxford, and Stanford University. In addition, UP ranked 95th in the Asia University Rankings for 2019, 501 to 600th for the World University Rankings, and 126-150th for the subject of clinical and pre-clinical health.

With reports from the UP System Website

Published in UP Manila Healthscape (Special COVID-19 Issue No. 33, November 2021)