BEIJING, March 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholarset, the leading academic social network of scientists, engineers and scholars based in China, announced its 2016 Research Ranking of the Global Universities (RRGU) today. Harvard University tops the list of 300 elite research universities, followed by MIT and Stanford. Johns Hopkins and University of California at Berkeley complete the top five.

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Scholarset's list is the first global university ranking of its kind, focusing on research universities worldwide. In contrast to previous ranking systems, Scholarset relies on big data, concentrates in research output, and emphasizes on research quality. As such, its ranking accurately reflects the research performance and impact of world universities.

Universities in the United States continue to dominate the top 25 ranking, with No.7 University of Toronto, No. 8 University of Oxford, No. 10 University College London, and No. 13 University of Cambridge the only exceptions. University of Tokyo is the top Asia Pacific university ranked, listed at No. 33, followed by No. 53 University of Melbourne, No. 68 University of Sydney, and No. 72 National University of Singapore.

China's elite two, Peking University and Tsinghua University, both rank in top 150, reflecting the growing influence of Chinese academics. Other ranked Mainland's institutes include Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Science and Technology of China, Nanjing University, and Sun Yat-Sen University.

Scholarset's Research Ranking of the Global Universities is based on four key metrics derived from bibliometric databases: (1) total research output; (2) accumulated research impact; (3) research impact per unit research output; and (4) high impact research output. With more emphasis on quality than quantities, different weights are given to these metrics to calculate the overall score for the final ranking.

Scholarset will also release its 2016 Research Ranking of Chinese Universities and Institutes on March 2nd.

The complete list of ranked universities is given below:

World Rank | Institution | Country

1. Harvard University US

2. MIT US

3. Stanford University US

4. Johns Hopkins University US

5. University of California, Berkeley US

6. University of Washington, Seattle US

7. University of Toronto CA

8. University of Oxford UK

9. University of California, Los Angeles US

10. University College London UK

11. University of Michigan US

12. University of Pennsylvania US

13. University of Cambridge UK

14. Columbia University US

15. University of California, San Francisco US

16. University of California, San Diego US

17. Duke University US

18. Yale University US

19. Imperial College London UK

20. University of Chicago US

21. Cornell University US

22. Washington University in St. Louis US

23. California Institute of Technology US

24. Northwestern University US

25. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill US

26. University of Colorado Boulder US

27. University of Pittsburgh US

28. University of Minnesota US

29. University of Wisconsin, Madison US

30. University of British Columbia CA

31. Rockefeller University US

32. University of Copenhagen DK

33. University of Tokyo JP

34. Princeton University US

35. Ohio State University US

36. University of Edinburgh UK

37. Utrecht University NL

38. University of California, Davis US

39. Boston University US

40. Emory University US

41. McGill University CA

42. Karolinska Institute SE

43. New York University US

44. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center US

45. Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6) FR

46. Pennsylvania State University US

47. KU Leuven BE

48. University of California, Santa Barbara US

49. Vanderbilt University US

50. University of Manchester UK

51. ETH Zurich CH

52. University of Munich DE

53. University of Melbourne AU

54. King's College London UK

55. Heidelberg University DE

56. Erasmus University Rotterdam NL

57. University of Zurich CH

58. Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai US

59. University of Texas, Austin US

60. University of Florida US

61. University of Amsterdam NL

62. Baylor College of Medicine US

63. Leiden University NL

64. University of California, Irvine US

65. University of Arizona US

66. University of Helsinki FI

67. University of Southern California US

68. University of Sydney AU

69. University of Groningen NL

70. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign US

71. VU University Amsterdam NL

72. National University of Singapore SG

73. University of Maryland, College Park US

74. Humboldt University of Berlin DE

75. University of Geneva CH

76. Radboud University Nijmegen NL

77. University of Queensland AU

78. Free University of Berlin DE

79. University of Bristol UK

80. EPFL CH

81. University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11) FR

82. Lund University SE

83. University of Barcelona ES

84. University of Rochester US

85. McMaster University CA

86. Case Western Reserve University US

87. Kyoto University JP

88. University Paris Diderot (Paris 7) FR

89. University of Utah US

90. Aarhus University DK

91. Ghent University BE

92. Brown University US

93. University of Glasgow UK

94. University of Montreal CA

95. Oregon Health & Science University US

96. Weizmann Institute of Science IL

97. University of Alabama, Birmingham US

98. University of Oslo NO

99. University of Massachusetts Medical School US

100. Seoul National University KR

101. University of Alberta CA

102. University of Virginia US

103. Uppsala University SE

104. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine UK

105. Tufts University US

106. University of Lausanne CH

107. Technical University of Munich DE

108. Georgia Institute of Technology US

109. University of Basel CH

110. Yeshiva University US

111. University of Milan IT

112. Rice University US

113. University of Birmingham UK

114. Peking University CN

115. University of Padova IT

116. Michigan State University US

117. University of Iowa US

118. Aix Marseille University FR

119. Queen Mary University of London UK

120. University of Southampton UK

121. University of Maryland, Baltimore US

122. University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio US

123. Sapienza University of Rome IT

124. Monash University AU

125. University of Bonn DE

126. University of Tübingen DE

127. University of Leeds UK

128. University of Miami US

129. University of California, Riverside US

130. Tsinghua University CN

131. Osaka University JP

132. Texas A&M University, College Station US

133. Purdue University US

134. University of Sheffield UK

135. University of Hamburg DE

136. Stony Brook University US

137. University of Bern CH

138. University of Nottingham UK

139. Stockholm University SE

140. Paris Descartes University (Paris 5) FR

141. Newcastle University UK

142. University of Dundee UK

143. University of Cincinnati US

144. Dartmouth College US

145. University of Göttingen DE

146. Wake Forest University US

147. Goethe University Frankfurt DE

148. University of New South Wales AU

149. University of Würzburg DE

150. University of Freiburg DE

151. Nanyang Technological University SG

152. University of Tennessee US

153. Cardiff University UK

154. Maastricht University NL

155. University of Calgary CA

156. Arizona State University US

157. Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis US

158. Joseph Fourier University FR

159. University of São Paulo BR

160. University of Massachusetts, Amherst US

161. Carnegie Mellon University US

162. University of Münster DE

163. University of Liverpool UK

164. University of Ottawa CA

165. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg DE

166. University of Leicester UK

167. University of Hong Kong CN

168. University of Bologna IT

169. University of Turin IT

170. University of Western Australia AU

171. Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz DE

172. Université libre de Bruxelles BE

173. Durham University UK

174. University of Montpellier FR

175. Tel Aviv University IL

176. Medical University of Vienna AT

177. Hebrew University of Jerusalem IL

178. University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston US

179. University of New Mexico US

180. University of Düsseldorf DE

181. University of Illinois, Chicago US

182. Tohoku University JP

183. Zhejiang University CN

184. Australian National University AU

185. Wayne State University US

186. University of Kiel UK

187. Trinity College Dublin IE

188. Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) FR

189. University of Cologne DE

190. Technical University of Denmark DK

191. Indiana University, Bloomington US

192. Catholic University of Louvain BE

193. Iowa State University US

194. University of Aberdeen UK

195. University of Strasbourg FR

196. Fudan University CN

197. Dresden University of Technology DE

198. University of Gothenburg SE

199. Virginia Commonwealth University US

200. Thomas Jefferson University US

201. RWTH Aachen University DE

202. Medical University of South Carolina US

203. Claude Bernard University (Lyon 1) FR

204. Laval University CA

205. National Taiwan University CN

206. University of East Anglia UK

207. University of Trieste IT

208. Rush University US

209. Shanghai Jiao Tong University CN

210. Autonomous University of Barcelona ES

211. Hannover Medical School DE

212. University of Florence IT

213. University of Bergen NO

214. University of Western Ontario CA

215. University of Kansas US

216. University of Science and Technology of China CN

217. University of Connecticut US

218. University of Ulm DE

219. Florida State University US

220. Medical College of Wisconsin US

221. University College Dublin IE

222. University of Bordeaux FR

223. University of Notre Dame US

224. University of York UK

225. Umeå University SE

226. Colorado State University US

227. University of Exeter UK

228. Nagoya University JP

229. University of South Florida US

230. University of Naples Federico II IT

231. Louisiana State University US

232. University of Sussex UK

233. University of St Andrews UK

234. University of Duisburg-Essen DE

235. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology DE

236. University of Georgia US

237. University of Pisa IT

238. University of Kentucky US

239. Georgetown University US

240. University of Cape Town ZA

241. Oregon State University US

242. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens GR

243. North Carolina State University US

244. University of Regensburg DE

245. University of Adelaide AU

246. Chinese University of Hong Kong CN

247. University of Oregon US

248. University of Genoa IT

249. University of Antwerp BE

250. University of Vienna AT

251. State University of New York, Buffalo US

252. Autonomous University of Madrid ES

253. University of Valencia ES

254. University of Oklahoma US

255. University of Warwick UK

256. University of Auckland NZ

257. University of Pavia IT

258. University of Vermont US

259. University of Southern Denmark DK

260. École Normale Supérieure FR

261. Tulane University US

262. University of Victoria CA

263. Saint Louis University US

264. University of Leipzig DE

265. George Washington University US

266. Medical University of Innsbruck AT

267. University of Rome Tor Vergata IT

268. University of Marburg DE

269. Nanjing University CN

270. Charles University in Prague CZ

271. University of South Carolina, Columbia US

272. University of Delaware US

273. Queen's University CA

274. University of Missouri US

275. University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston US

276. University of Eastern Finland FI

277. Drexel University US

278. University of Perugia IT

279. Dalhousie University CA

280. University of Liège BE

281. Friedrich Schiller University of Jena DE

282. University of Manitoba CA

283. University of Innsbruck AT

284. Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO

285. University of Lisbon PT

286. University of Nebraska Medical Center US

287. University of Ferrara IT

288. University of Otago NZ

289. Ruhr University Bochum DE

290. Pompeu Fabra University ES

291. Kyushu University JP

292. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology IL

293. Yonsei University KR

294. University of Reading UK

295. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology CN

296. Tokyo Institute of Technology JP

297. Sun Yat-sen University CN

298. Queen's University Belfast UK

299. Sungkyunkwan University KR

300. University of Turku FI

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