The Hardman Rankings

Not ranked in the World University Rankings

We couldn’t find an official student count for this university, so its alumni outcomes can’t be measured per student. It is listed in the Research Index but not ranked overall.

Research Index

A · Quality
51.7
B · Strength
29.8

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: 623. On strength alone: =916. The Research Index scores research only; admissions, earnings and alumni outcomes are scored in the overall ranking where data exists.

The numbers behind it (2020–2023)

Papers in the top 10% of their field
10.0% (9.2%–10.9%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.0% (0.7%–1.3%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
201
All papers (fractional count)
2,011
International co-authored
64.9%
Open access
63.0%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
22 (2.21 per 1,000)

Core publications, fractional counting, field-normalised citation shares. Brackets show Leiden’s stability interval. Collaboration and open-access shares use full counting and aren’t field-normalised. Retraction counts come from the Retraction Watch database and include publishers’ mass retractions as well as honest-error retractions; a retraction is not by itself evidence of misconduct, and the count is never scored.

By field

Biomedical & health sciences=1231range 1022–1417 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences624range 470–764 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=251range 166–418 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=399range 286–588 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities–fewer than 200 papers

Position over time

bottom2017–2020: 877 of 1,0782020–2023: 735 of 1,305

The same method applied to each 4-year publication window. The number of ranked universities grows from period to period, so position is shown as a share of the field.

How other rankings place it

735Research Index 2026
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
–ARWU 2026 (not in top 100)

Other rankings are cited for comparison. The Research Index measures research only; QS and THE also use reputation surveys and figures universities submit, and ARWU counts prize winners and total output.

Prize winners

No Nobel, Fields, Turing or Abel laureates linked to this university in Wikidata.