The Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University has published on the web the Academic Ranking of World Universities that has attracted wide attentions worldwide. Institutions are ranked according to their academic or research performance. Ranking indicators include the alumni and staff winning major international awards, highly cited researchers in major research fields, articles published in selected top journals, articles indexed by major citation indexes, and performance per capita. Methodological problems discussed include quantitative versus qualitative evaluation, evaluation of research versus education, variety of institutions, language of publications, selection of awards, and studying or working experience of award winners. Technical problems such as definition of institutions, name expression of institutions, merging and splitting of institutions, searching and attribution of publications are discussed.
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