Tel Aviv University, one of the strongest academic institutions in Israel, surpasses the top U.S. institutions in a key metric for universities — citations by other researchers.
TAU Prof. Carlo Strenger writes in Haaretz:
Tel Aviv University has been ranked number 11 worldwide in citations per faculty in 2010 – a truly staggering result. TAU gets 100 of 100 in this domain, right up there with Harvard, MIT and Princeton, and surpasses illustrious schools such as Cambridge, Oxford, Yale and Columbia, which are graded in the high 90s.
To quote U.S. World News Report, “Citations per faculty, when evaluated to account for the size of the institution, are the best understood and most widely accepted measure of research strength and faculty productivity at a university.” In other words: in terms of pure strength of research, Israel has one of the very best universities in the world.
As a reader of this blog, you should not be surprised, as this writer, with all the eloquent brilliance spewed forth, is a TAU alum.
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Tel Aviv University’s campus. |
| Photo by: Moti Milrod |
To quote U.S. World News Report, “Citations per faculty, when evaluated to account for the size of the institution, are the best understood and most widely accepted measure of research strength and faculty productivity at a university.” In other words: in terms of pure strength of research, Israel has one of the very best universities in the world.