U.S. News Best National Universities Rankings – U.S. News

The bibliometric datasets based on the U.S. News methodology are available in SciVal for the ranking year 2024.

For more information on the U.S. News Best National Universities Rankings, please visit the U.S. News website.

U.S. News Best National Universities Rankings analysis in Explore

1. "U.S. News Best National Universities Rankings" tab in the 'Rankings' section helps SciVal customers:

   • Generate insights based on the bibliometric data used in the U.S. News Best National Universities Rankings category of the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings, removing the need to manually export and generate the datasets.
   • Analyze the trends in the bibliometric drivers to enrich your understanding and inform plans accordingly.
2. Select a Ranking Year to examine, starting from 2024, first year on inclusion of bibliometrics in the ranking.
3. View the list of affiliations considered in the Institution profile used by U.S. News in their Best National Universities Rankings methodology versus the SciVal Institution profile
4. Summary of metrics
   Offers at-a-glance view of the blbliometrics used by U.S. News to calculate the corresponding U.S. News indicators.
5. Citations per Publication (U.S. News) - (1.25%)
   Citations per publication is the average number of citations received by an institutions’ publications, or the total citations divided by total publications. The metrics are extracted from SciVal, based on Elsevier’s Scopus® data and are weighted at 1.25% of overall U.S. News Best National University Rankings score.
6. Field-Weighted Citation Impact - 5 Year (U.S. News) - (1.25%)
   Field-Weighted Citation Impact metric is the citation impact per paper, normalized for field, year of publication and type of publication. The metrics are extracted from SciVal based on Elsevier’s Scopus® data and are weighted at 1.25% of overall U.S. News Best National University Rankings score.
7. Publication Share in Top 5% Journals (U.S. News) - (1%)
   The share of publications in the top 5% of the most cited journals by CiteScore. The metrics are extracted from SciVal based on Elsevier’s Scopus® data and are weighted at 1% of overall U.S. News Best National Universities Rankings score. 
8. Explore the full list of publications at the base of each research related metric.

   • Clicking on a “view list of publications” link launches a modal which shows the publications considered for the chosen metric and is available for each of the different metrics. 

   • For further analysis, you can save the list as a Publication Set or export the publications into a spreadsheet. 

     
9. Publication Share in Top 25% Journals (U.S. News) - (0.5%)
   The share of publications in the top 25% of the most cited journals by CiteScoreopens in new tab/window. The metrics are extracted from SciVal based on Elsevier’s Scopus® Data and are weighted at 0.5% of overall U.S. News Best National Universities Rankings score.