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
9.6
B · Strength
33.6

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =1185. On strength alone: 867. 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
5.6% (5.0%–6.1%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.4% (0.3%–0.6%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
220
All papers (fractional count)
3,955
International co-authored
41.8%
Open access
55.9%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
8 (0.83 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 sciences1545range 1425–1603 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=764range 626–862 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=1020range 855–1155 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=1081range 866–1241 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=1202range 1116–1238 of 1,262

Position over time

bottom2014–2017: 890 of 9112020–2023: 1133 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

=1133Research 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.