First Among Korean Private Universities to be Ranked in Top 100 Ranked No. 1 in Korea for Educational Environment Evaluation Yonsei University achieved the grand feat of ranking in the international top 100 for SCI article publication. According to the information made public on September 10 by the Ministry of Education regarding the SCI article publication of Korean institutions for 2007, Yonsei University published a total of 2,193 SCI articles last year, ranking 96th internationally. The SCI (Science Citation Index) is a citation database published annually by the American Institute for Scientific Information. The database collects information from select academic journals and provides the citation information. The number of SCI articles is often considered a visible index of an institution’s academic level. An Increase of 336 Articles and Ten Steps Up in Ranking For 2006, Yonsei had ranked 106th with 1,857 articles. This year, with an astonishing climb of ten steps, Yonsei ranked 96th and became the only private institution in Korea to rank in the top 100. Seoul National University is the only Korean public institution in the top 100, placed 24th this year. Reaffirmation of Research and Academic Achievements Sungkyunkwan University had ranked third in Korea last year with 1,566 articles and showed an increase of 202 articles this year with 1,768. However, Korea University beat Sungkyunkwan this year, landing at 137th, four steps ahead of Sungkyunkwan. Hanyang University published 1,293 articles and was placed fifth in Korea, while KAIST dropped to sixth place. The average number of SCI articles per Yonsei faculty member was 1.84. Korea Ranks 12th Internationally with 25,494 SCI Articles For the year of 2007, Korean institutions published a total of 25,494 SCI articles with an increase of 2,197 compared to the past year. This number placed Korea 12th among 180 countries. The percentage of articles published by Korean scholars was 2.17 percent, a near twofold increase in the past 10 years, according to the Ministry of Education. The U.S. topped the list with 293.371 articles and the U.K. ranked second with 79,784. China showed an increase of nearly 10,000 articles in one year, coming in third with 79,674. Pushed down by China to fourth and fifth were Germany and Japan with 73,184 and 70,531 articles respectively. Korea came up one step to rank 12th after India (27,449). The average number of times an SCI article written by Koreans was cited by others from 2003 to 2007 was 3.44, a 5.2 percent increase from last year’s 3.27. However, Korea’s international ranking in this division dropped to 30th from 28th last year. Over 50.7 percent of all SCI articles were published by the top five countries of the U.S., the U.K., China, Germany, and Japan, with 596,544 out of 1,177,528 articles published by these countries. Harvard Ranked No. 1 and University of Tokyo No. 2 Harvard University came in first among institutions worldwide with 10,258 articles. The Japan’s University of Tokyo ranked 2nd with 7,308 articles and Canada’s University of Toronto came third with 6,170 articles. Rounding out the top 10 were UCLA (6,000), Michigan University (5,962), the University of Washington (5,725), Stanford University (5,332), Kyoto University (5,305), Johns Hopkins (5,131), and the University of Pittsburgh (5,016), all but Kyoto being American institutions. Among universities of non-English-speaking countries, the University of San Paolo in Brazil (17th/4,466) and the University of Paris in France (39th/3,271) were ranked relatively high. The country with the most institutions in the top 100 was by far the U.S. with 49 universities in the top 100. Japan and the U.K. followed with seven and six respectively. The next top-ranking nations were Canada with five, China and Italy with four, Australia, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands with three. Japan, the runner-up, ranked highly on the list with the University of Tokyo (2nd), Kyoto University (8th), Tohoku University (20th), Osaka University (23rd), and three more institutions in the top 100.