The latest edition of the International Transparency Ranking prepared by the Higher Council for Scientific Research of Spain (CSIC) once again placed the National University of La Plata (UNLP) as the best university in Argentina.
Also, after climbing 22 positions worldwide, the institution ranked 244th out of more than 5,000 universities around the world. Besides, the National University of La Plata was chosen as the fourth most important in Latin America.
Besides the National University of La Plataanother 17 national institutions were chosen within the ranking. The second place was occupied by the University of Buenos Aires (UBA)which ranks 415th worldwide.
Followed are the universities of Córdoba (ranked 722nd in the world), the Center of the Province of Buenos Aires (ranked 1,694) and Río Cuarto (ranked 2014). In relation to the previous edition, the universities of Mar del Plata, Tucumán and del Sur were left out of the ranking.
It should be noted that the Transparency Ranking “highlights the educational institutions with the highest number of citations to the public profiles of their researchers and academics in Google Scholar, with which, what is measured is the quality of the scientific and academic production of the houses of study”, according to the organization.
In this sense, the UNLP got 1,597,245; the UBA, 878,612, that of Córdoba, 360,161; the Center of the Province of Buenos Aires, 51,396; and Rio Cuarto, 30,265.
In this way, the measurement elaborated by the CSIC reflects the quality of the scientific and academic production of the UNLP and ratifies the recognition that it has managed to obtain internationally in recent years.
How was the ranking in Latin America
At regional level, the institution The first place in the European ranking was the University of São Paulo, with 4,374,699 citations and ranked 63 worldwide. In second place is the National Autonomous University of Mexico, with 2,092,067 citations and ranked 172nd.
The third place was from the State University of Campinas, from Brazil: 2,070,933 citations (175th place). For its part, the general list is headed by the prestigious Harvard University, with a total of 22,692,656 citations, followed by Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
