In fact, the Leiden Ranking isn’t a ranking at all, but a multidimensional benchmarking tool. It’s great news that there is now a fully open version available. You can now not only choose your own criteria for comparing universities, but also check the underlying data.
Read the introduction, which includes a detailed explanation and visualisations, via the link above, along with an explanation of how it came about here.
Opening up the CWTS Leiden Ranking: Toward a decentralized and open model for data curation - Leiden Madtrics
https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/opening-...Today, CWTS released the Open Edition of the Leiden Ranking. This blog post discusses the data cu...
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