U.S. News Best Engineering Schools – U.S. News

The bibliometric datasets based on the U.S. News methodology are available in SciVal for the ranking year 2025 onwards. 

For more information on the U.S. News Best Engineering Schools, please visit the U.S. News website. 

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

   • Generate insights based on the bibliometric data used in the U.S. News Best Engineering Schools category of the U.S. News Best Engineering Schools, 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 2025, 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 Best Engineering Schools methodology versus the SciVal Institution profile 
4. Summary of metrics 
   Offers at-a-glance view of the bibliometrics used by U.S. News Best Engineering Schools. 
5. Citations per Publication (U.S. News) - (3%) 
   Citations per publication is total citations divided by total number of publications at the engineering school. This is the average number of citations an engineering school's publications receives. The metrics are extracted from SciVal based on Elsevier’s Scopus® Data. It is weighted at 3% of overall U.S. News Best Engineering Schools score. 
6. Field-Weighted Citation Impact - 5 Year (U.S. News) - (3%) 
   Fields weighted citation impact is citation impact per paper, normalized for each engineering field. The metrics are extracted from SciVal based on Elsevier’s Scopus® Data. It is weighted at 3% of overall U.S. News Best Engineering Schools score. 
7. Publication Share in Top 5% Journals (U.S. News) - (2.5%) 
   The share of publications cited in the top 5% of the most cited journals using CiteScoreopens in new tab/window. The metrics are extracted from SciVal based on Elsevier’s Scopus® Data. It is weighted at 2.5% of overall U.S. News Best Engineering Schools score. 
8. Publication Share in Top 25% Journals (U.S. News) - (1.5%) 
   The share of publications cited in the top 25% of the most cited journals using CiteScoreopens in new tab/window. The metrics are extracted from SciVal based on Elsevier’s Scopus® Data. It is weighted at 1.5% of overall U.S. News Best Engineering Schools score. 

9. 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. 

   
   Scholarly Output (U.S. News)

   

   
    

10. Publication Share in Top 5% Journals (U.S. News)

    

    
     

11. Publication Share in Top 25% Journals (U.S. News)