Leiden 2022 : Université Paris Cité 1st French university for publication impact

The CTWS Leiden 2022 ranking was released on June 22nd. Published by Leiden University in the Netherlands, it is recognized for its objectivity and transparent methodology in line with research standards.

Université Paris Cité has, over the period 2017-2020, 5,045 publications in the top 10% of the world’s most cited [1]. The university has thus climbed seven positions worldwide compared to the 2021 ranking, enabling it to move up to 1st place in France, 6th place in Europe, and 32nd place worldwide. It also maintains its 1st place in the French Top 1%.

          Ranking Université Paris Cité in the Top1%                    Ranking Université Paris Cité in the Top10%

The university has maintained or improved its performance in each of the five disciplinary fields covered by the ranking, thus demonstrating the quality and multidisciplinarity of its research.

Ranking Université Paris Cité in France in the Top1% by subject

In addition, this year, Université Paris Cité once again ranked first in France in terms of gender diversity among its author publications. In Europe, it is ranked 4th, and 15th in the world based on this same criterion. It is also 2nd in France for the number of open access publishing and the number of documents co-authored in international collaborations. 

[1] According to an unsplit counting method, i.e. not divided by the number of co-signatory universities.

Methodology of the Leiden rankings

The Leiden rankings are based on bibliometric indicators linked to scientific publications. The identification of these is supported by the bibliographic database of the Web of Science, Core Collection produced by Clarivate Analytics and on the enhancements by scientists of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. For this year’s rankings, the articles and reviews are based on publications for the period from 2017 to 2020 in international magazines grounded in subject matters. By major themes, the indicators are broken down based on the number of citations amongst 1%, 5%, 10% or 50% of the articles the most cited worldwide. In addition to these indicators related to scientific impact, indicators on collaborations and open science are also available.