The 2016 CYD Ranking carried out by the Knowledge and Development Foundation shows the leadership of the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) in the field of research. In this field, the UJI reaches the qualification of high-performance center in indicators such as the impact of research, the high citation rate of publications or the number of post-doctorates in relation to the faculty of the University. The UJI also excels in terms of contribution to regional development, where it achieves the qualification of high performance for obtaining regional revenue. The Knowledge and Development Foundation (CYD), a partner in the international U-Multirank ranking, produces an annual national ranking that has counted with the participation of 66 public and private universities nationwide in 2016.

In the dimension of "research", the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) ranks as high-performance centre in five of the ten indicators, in an intermediate position in four of them, and only shows a lower profile in interdisciplinary publications that include references to other fields of science. Thus, the Universitat Jaume I is leader in normalised impact. This indicator reflects the average number of citations of the publications of a university, placing it in relation to the scope and year of publication. Moreover, the UJI achieved a high-performance position in highly-cited publications in their respective fields; in the number of post-doctorates in relation to the University faculty; in the official teaching and research staff who has not accumulated any research premium or six-years period in relation to the total of lecturers, and in the number of artistic results based on creative and performing arts. Despite being a relatively young university, with only 25 years of history, the Universitat Jaume I is positioned as an intermediate group in attracting external resources for research, in the number of scientific publications by research staff and in the research premiums or six-year periods of research obtained by the teaching and research staff.

The UJI also excels in the "contribution to regional development” section, where it stands out as a group of excellence in obtaining regional incomes, based on the percentage of total revenues of the institution from the autonomous community where the university is located. In this section, the UJI is in an intermediate situation with regard to the other participating universities in the number of work placements of its students in companies in the region.

The balance is equally positive in the fields addressing the international orientation of the university and the transfer of the knowledge generated on campus to society. On the latter, despite its size and youth, the UJI is positioned as an intermediate group in five of the seven indicators in the area. This indicators include the incomes by licenses of intellectual and industrial property, the number of spin-off companies created in the last three years in relation to the teaching and research staff and the number of publications cited in patents. In the 2016 ranking, the University also includes two new indicators in this positive assessment: the obtaining of private funds and the number of patents granted.

With regard to "international orientation", the indicators place the UJI in a positive position regarding student mobility in exchange programmes with foreign countries, the ratio of foreign teaching and research staff and the percentage of university publications made in collaboration with researchers from other countries. The UJI also improves its position with regard to the master’s degrees offered in a foreign language. Finally, in the area of "teaching and learning", the University occupies an intermediate position in attracting master’s degree students at a national scale.

The indicators used for the preparation of CYD Ranking include information about the publications indexed in the databases Web of Science and PATSTAT (EPO-World Wide Patent Statistical Database) of the European Patent Organisation, information provided by the universities and student surveys. CYD Ranking does not use synthetic indicators. It is a multidimensional ranking, which provides indicators to measure and compare the performance of universities in different activity areas. The ranking uses institutional indicators not to establish which one is the best university, but to offer a vision of the diversity of university profiles. Thus, the CYD Foundation does not produce a ranking in tables, determining which university is in the first, second or third place, or by institution, scope, dimension or measure. The CYD Ranking is developed in parallel with U-Multirank, the international ranking promoted by the European Commission, for which the CYD Foundation is its partner in Spain, and with which it shares the objectives and methodology.

CYD Ranking 2016

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