“Russia is in the doldrums,” said Professor Marginson, who argued that its system was “inward-looking” and hampered by the fact that publishing in Russian made it difficult to disseminate its research worldwide.
Although they were considered in the analysis, no universities from Indonesia, Pakistan, Peru or the Philippines made the table, which uses the same methodology as the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014. Factors considered include scholarly citations, research income and the proportion of foreign students.
The 22 countries analysed are those defined as emerging markets by the FTSE Group’s Country Classification.
BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings 2014 top 10
| Rank | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peking University | China |
| 2 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 3 | University of Cape Town | South Africa |
| 4 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan |
| 5 | Boğaziçi University | Turkey |
| 6 | University of Science and Technology of China | China |
| 7 | Istanbul Technical University | Turkey |
| 8 | Fudan University | China |
| 9 | Middle East Technical University | Turkey |
| 10 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russian Federation |
