JoongAng Ilbo’s Global University Rankings for 2009 “Let’s see the data analysis.” Professor Kwon Young-joon gathered the graduate students at the high-energy particle laboratory at Yonsei’s Science Hall on the September 21. The professor introduced the experiment as “a laboratory work to examine why substance vanished when the Big Bang was happened.” “We are translating downloaded data from High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Tsukuba, Japan,” Choi Kyong-san, one of the graduate researchers of the laboratory, added. The experiment is an international collaboration involving 300 scientists around 13 countries. “The number of papers written by Korean scientists has increased,” Professor Kwon said, “but not many are influential still.” With increasing number of international collaborations and researches, Yonsei entered the world’s top 100 universities in the field of physics research. According to JoongAng Ilbo’s University Rankings 2009, Yonsei’s physics department ranked 36th among 245 universities around the globe. The ranking was evaluated by the number of publication and citations in the international journals. Among the physics departments around the globe, the one at Cornell University took the first place in the number of papers with high rate of citation (top 1%), earning 100 points in score. Yonsei took the first place in Korea with 68 points (36th), followed by Kyungpook National University (48 points, global rank 107th), Korea University (38 points, global rank 123rd) and Seoul National University (37 points, global rank 129th). Currently there are 357 universities around the world that published their own research paper in the field of physics.