Polytechnic of Porto among the Top-20 Universities in the World

In science and technology (S&T), evaluation of research is more and more based on the actual impact caused by the science and technology that is produced rather than on the quantity or the venue where the results are published. Research assessment must consequently judge not only the reputation of the journal or conferences where results are published, but also, and important, the quality and impact of the produced results. 

All rankings have a particular way of assessment and the assessment criteria and resulting accuracy of such rankings is always open to dispute. The recently released Microsoft Academic is one such ranking tool that allows measuring the quality of research based on the impact of citations on an institutional level.

It is outstanding the contribution of CISTER/INESC-TEC to the current ranking of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto in one of the most prominent sub-areas of computer science: real-time and embedded computing. Considering the past five years, Polytechnic of Porto ranks among the top-20 universities of the world and among the top 3 in Europe, in a list that includes over two thousand universities and research institutions from all over the world.

The list is currently led by 10 US giants: Berkeley, UIUC, Microsoft, UNC-CH, MIT, Stanford, CMU, MIT, GATECH, UCLA and UPenn. We follow these top ten and much larger research centres in the 12th place, and ahead of numerous other prestigious and well known institutions.

Very few other Portuguese institutions can claim a similar impact in any other area or sub-area of S&T.

More info at: Microsoft Academic tool website