Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities

2017 edition

(see previous edition [WRWU13])

Datasets, article, and supporting documents

by Célestin Coquidé, José Lages, Dima Shepelyansky

Geographical distribution of the 1011 universities appearing in the top 100s universities of the 24 Wikipedia editions rankings using PageRank algorithm.

Article versions and supplementary information

Article published in The European Physical Journal B [pdf]
Article + SI in arXiv [pdf] [html]
Figures in full resolution [tgz]

Media coverage

EPJ B Highlight - New university ranking system includes the cultural perspective, EPJ.org, January 25th 2019 [html]

Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities

2017 Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities using PageRank algorithm (1011 ranked universities) [WPRWU17]

2017 Ranking of countries [CTRYPR17]
2017 Ranking of universities from United States , France , Germany , United Kingdom , Iran , India , Canada , Australia , China , Italy , Japan , Russia , Brazil , Spain , Netherlands , Poland , Sweden , Mexico , Turkey , Romania , South Africa , Norway , Switzerland , Philippines , Austria , Belgium , Argentina , Indonesia , Greece , Denmark , South Korea , Israel , Hungary , Finland , Egypt , Portugal , Taiwan , Ukraine , Czech Republic , Malaysia , Thailand , Colombia , Bulgaria , Chile , Republic of Ireland , Singapore , Serbia , Vietnam , Nepal , Estonia , Iraq , Bangladesh , Syria , Myanmar , Slovakia , Venezuela , Morocco , Cuba , Puerto Rico , Saudi Arabia , Lithuania , Lebanon , Cyprus , Latvia , Belarus , United Arab Emirates , Uruguay , North Korea , Yemen , Costa Rica , Tunisia , Jordan , Guatemala , Greenland , Dominican Republic , Uzbekistan , Kuwait , Qatar , Senegal , El Salvador , Suriname , Faroe Islands , Brunei , Palestine , Georgia .
The above countries are ordered according to the list [CNTRY17]
List of the countries hosting the universities appearing in the 2017 Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities using PageRank algorithm [CNTRY17]

2017 Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities using CheiRank algorithm (1464 ranked universities) [WCRWU17]
2017 Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities using 2DRank algorithm (1368 ranked universities) [W2RWU17]
2017 Academic Ranking of World Universities (2017 Shanghai Ranking - Top 100 universities shown) [ARWU17]

2017 Ranking of countries [CTRYAR]

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], 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], 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], Chinese [ZH]

Auxiliary datasets

List of country codes [CC] and list of language codes [LC]
Datasets [wiki17] of 24 networks of 24 Wikipedia editions (May 2017 - 7Gb - available upon request).

Webpage created 2 June 2018 and maintained by José Lages.