Comparative Evaluation of Research in the India, Taiwan and China C9 Universities using CWTS Leiden Ranking 2018 Data

The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) Leiden ranking 2018 (http://www.leidenranking.com/) reports the scientific performance of 938 major universities from 55 countries covering eight sliding four-year time windows, from 2006–2009 to 2013–2016 using data curated from Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science (WoS). A Higher Educational Institution (HEI) is included only if it has least 1000 publications in the period 2013–2016 from the WoS database. Arguably these are the best research- intensive universities in the world. There are 24 universities from India, 18 from Taiwan and 147 from China. The Leiden data allow us to compare research progress longitudinally. Here, we shall do so for India’s 24 cohort, Taiwan’s 18, and restrict attention only to the 9 elite universities of China known as the C9 League (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C9_League). Table 1 is a compilation of this list.