The ranking of Leiden University

Five Hungarian universities were included in the latest, 2019 rankings of the University of Leiden, based on the number of publications and citations of academics and researchers working in the higher education institutions. The list also takes into account which publications belong to the top one, ten and fifty percent of most cited publications in the given field. For the 2019 list, publications from the period of 2014-2017 were reviewed. The University of Debrecen was ranked 745th in the Leiden Ranking. This means that among the Hungarian universities, the University of Debrecen was ranked in the second most prestigious place. The University of Szeged is placed before us in the ranking, ranked 687th, while the Budapest University of Technology and Economics is placed behind us, ranked 758th; Semmelweis University ranked 816th and Eötvös Loránd University ranked 844th on the list.

Considering the rankings according to the various subjects, the University of Debrecen is ranked 509th in the field of ’Biomedical and health sciences’, and 571th in the field of ’Life and earth sciences’.