Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities

2013 edition

(see current edition [WRWU17])

Datasets, article, and supporting documents

by José Lages, Antoine Patt, Dima Shepelyansky

Geographical distribution of universities appearing in the top 100s universities of the 24 Wikipedia editions rankings using PageRank algorithm.
Colors range from dark blue (small number of universities) to dark red (maximum number of universities, here 118 for US).

Article versions

Article published in The European Physical Journal B [pdf]
Article in arXiv [pdf v2] [pdf v1]

Worlwide press coverage

List of 99 press articles from 22 countries [press]
Press articles by country: [US/International] [FR] [UK] [IT] [PT] [ES] [BR] [IN] [SE] [DE] [IA] [PL] [KR] [IL] [TH] [CN] [RU] [UA] [GR] [AL] [GT] [EE]

Presentations

General audience presentation given at L'Etudiant / EducPros April 1, 2016 [Talk]
Talk given at the workshop "Applications of Google matrix to directed networks and Big Data", School for advanced sciences of Luchon, May 16th 2016, [Talk]

Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities

2013 Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities using PageRank algorithm (1025 ranked universities) [WPRWU13]

2013 Ranking of countries [CTRYPR13]

2013 Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities using CheiRank algorithm (1379 ranked universities) [WCRWU13]
2013 Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities using 2DRank algorithm (1560 ranked universities) [W2RWU13]
2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities (2013 Shanghai Ranking - Top 100 universities shown) [ARWU13]

2013 Ranking of countries [CTRYAR]

2013 Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities for universities founded before 19th century using PageRank algorithm (140 ranked universities) [WPRWUb19]
2013 Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities for universities founded before 20th century using PageRank algorithm (384 ranked universities) [WPRWUb20]

Geographical distributions of World Universities

Geographical distribution of World Universities appearing in the 24 tops 100 universities of the 24 Wikipedia editions ranked using PageRank algorithm [PRgeo]
Animation of the geographical distribution of World Universities through centuries and appearing in the 24 tops 100 universities of the 24 Wikipedia editions ranked using PageRank algorithm [PRanimation]
Geographical distribution of World Universities founded before 19th century and appearing in the 24 tops 100 universities of the 24 Wikipedia editions ranked using PageRank algorithm [PRb19geo]
Geographical distribution of World Universities founded before 20th century and appearing in the 24 tops 100 universities of the 24 Wikipedia editions ranked using PageRank algorithm [PRb20geo]

Top 100 universities for each of the 24 Wikipedia language editions

Top 100 universities for each of the 24 Wikipedia language editions using PageRank algorithm: Arabic [AR], Danish [DA], German [DE], Greek [EL], English [EN], Spanish [ES], Persian [FA], French [FR], Hebrew [HE], Hindi [HI], Hungarian [HU], Italian [IT], Japanese [JA], Korean [KO], Malaysian [MS], Dutch [NL], Polish [PL], Portuguese [PT], Russian [RU], Swedish [SV], Thai [TH], Turkish [TR], Vietnamese [VI], Chinese [ZH]
Top 100 universities for each of the 24 Wikipedia language editions using CheiRank algorithm: Arabic [AR], Danish [DA], German [DE], Greek [EL], English [EN], Spanish [ES], Persian [FA], French [FR], Hebrew [HE], Hindi [HI], Hungarian [HU], Italian [IT], Japanese [JA], Korean [KO], Malaysian [MS], Dutch [NL], Polish [PL], Portuguese [PT], Russian [RU], Swedish [SV], Thai [TH], Turkish [TR], Vietnamese [VI], Chinese [ZH]
Top 100 universities for each of the 24 Wikipedia language editions using 2DRank algorithm: Arabic [AR], Danish [DA], German [DE], Greek [EL], English [EN], Spanish [ES], Persian [FA], French [FR], Hebrew [HE], Hindi [HI], Hungarian [HU], Italian [IT], Japanese [JA], Korean [KO], Malaysian [MS], Dutch [NL], Polish [PL], Portuguese [PT], Russian [RU], Swedish [SV], Thai [TH], Turkish [TR], Vietnamese [VI], Chinese [ZH]

Top 10 universities for a given language in Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities

Top 10 universities for a given language in Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities using PageRank algorithm: Arabic [AR], Danish [DA], German [DE], Greek [EL], English [EN], Spanish [ES], Persian [FA], French [FR], Hebrew [HE], Hindi [HI], Hungarian [HU], Italian [IT], Japanese [JA], Korean [KO], Malaysian [MS], Dutch [NL], Polish [PL], Portuguese [PT], Russian [RU], Swedish [SV], Thai [TH], Turkish [TR], Vietnamese [VI], World [WR], Chinese [ZH]
Top 10 universities for a given language in Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities using CheiRank algorithm: Arabic [AR], Danish [DA], German [DE], Greek [EL], English [EN], Spanish [ES], Persian [FA], French [FR], Hebrew [HE], Hindi [HI], Hungarian [HU], Italian [IT], Japanese [JA], Korean [KO], Malaysian [MS], Dutch [NL], Polish [PL], Portuguese [PT], Russian [RU], Swedish [SV], Thai [TH], Turkish [TR], Vietnamese [VI], World [WR], Chinese [ZH]
Top 10 universities for a given language in Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities using 2DRank algorithm: Arabic [AR], Danish [DA], German [DE], Greek [EL], English [EN], Spanish [ES], Persian [FA], French [FR], Hebrew [HE], Hindi [HI], Hungarian [HU], Italian [IT], Japanese [JA], Korean [KO], Malaysian [MS], Dutch [NL], Polish [PL], Portuguese [PT], Russian [RU], Swedish [SV], Thai [TH], Turkish [TR], Vietnamese [VI], World [WR], Chinese [ZH]

Auxiliary datasets

List of country codes [CC] and list of language codes [LC]
Datasets of 24 networks of 24 Wikipedia editions (February 2013 - 2.4 Gb) [FETNADINE], these datasets have been generated by Sebastiano Vigna in the framework of EC FET Open project NADINE No288956 of European Union

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