Thirty-three European universities rank in the top 100, an increase over the 28 that made the grade in 2009. Asia-Pacific’s representation in the top 100 consists of five Japanese and three Australian universities.
Within Europe, the UK has most institutions in the 100, at eleven, Germany has four, France three, Switzerland three, Sweden three, Denmark two and Holland two.
English-speaking universities remain predominant in the rankings, which are based on criteria including the number of alumni who are Nobel Prize winners, number of highly cited researchers in 21 subject areas, number of papers published in the journals Nature and Science, and the number of articles indexed in the Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation Index.
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