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The Scholarly Outputs or publications considered in the QS WUR calculation and used to calculate the Citation Count (QS) are limited to the following content types:
- Article
- Review
- Conference Paper
- Book
- Book Chapter
- Article in Press
- Business Article
- Review
- Data Paper
- Report
- Retracted
The following content types are excluded:
- Abstract Report
- Conference Review
- Editorial
- Erratum
- Letter
- Note
- Press Release
- Short Survey
- Undefined
Other exclusions are:
International branch campuses
Other adjustments:
- If a journal is classified solely under Scopus ASJC Multidisciplinary Subject area (code 1000), then such papers don’t feed into any of five faculty areas (which is not about paper exclusions, but rather ASJC to QS subject mapping). Still such papers counted in various overall counts.
- The Scholarly Outputs considered in the ranking calculation are subject to an affiliation Cap (number of unique affiliations listed on a publication) adjustment which is variable per QS subject area while ensuring that no more than 0.1% of an institutions Scholarly Outputs in that subject are excluded.
Excluded Scholarly Output
Institution's Scholarly Output excluded from the QS ranking.
Total Scholarly Output
The sum of the Scholarly Output (QS) and Excluded Scholarly Output
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