image/svg+xml These rankings havean impact on scientificand educational policiesof governments Istherean universalranking withouta priori criteria andwithout cultural bias ? Rankings of WorldUniversities About 20 different global universityrankings are listed in the Wikipediapage "College and university rankings" All these rankings are composite: Also, universities are preselected +β α +γ +δ + ... Composite score       So let's shakeWikipedia !!     Mercipourvotreattention World influence from Wikipedia directed networksAcademic rankings, infectious diseases, cancers and drugs José LagesCélestin Coquidé, Guillaume Rollin Equipe de Physique Théorique - Institut UTINAMCNRSUniversité de Bourgogne Franche-Comté  Laboratoire de Physique ThéoriqueCNRSUniversité Paul Sabatier, Toulouse  Dima Shepelyansky October 18th 2018 Wikipedia PageRankingof World UniversitiesWRWU 1st University of Cambridge 2nd University of Oxford 3rd Harvard University 4th Columbia University 5th Princeton University 6th MIT 7th University of Chicago 8th Stanford University 9th Yale University 10th University of California, Berkeley  Academic Ranking of World UniversitiesARWU ("Shanghai ranking" 2013) 1st Harvard University (-2) 2nd Stanford University (-6) 3rd University of California, Berkeley (-7) 4th MIT (-2) 5th University of Cambridge (+4) 6th California Institute of Technology (-22) 7th Princeton University (+2) 8th Columbia University (+4) 9th University of Chicago (+2)10th University of Oxford (+8) 90% overlapbetween top 10sWRWU and ARWU 60% overlapbetween top 100sWRWU and ARWU Definitively, as ARWU, WRWU measures academic excellence, but not only ...