Subject Ranking 2015-2016: Clinical, pre-clinical and health methodology

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-2016 clinical, pre-clinical and health subject ranking includes a wide range of narrower subject areas.

The full list of clinical, pre-clinical and health subjects used to create this ranking is:

• Allergy
• Anaesthesiology
• Cardiovascular system and cardiology
• Dentistry and oral surgery
• Dermatology
• Endocrinology and metabolism
• Gastroenterology and hepatology
• Geriatrics and gerontology
• Health care sciences and services
• Haematology
• Infectious diseases
• Legal medicine
• Medical ethics
• Medical informatics
• Medical laboratory technology
• Medicine, general and internal
• Neurosciences and neurology
• Nursing
• Nutrition and dietetics
• Obstetrics and gynaecology
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedics
• Otorhinolaryngology
• Pathology
• Paediatrics
• Pharmacology and pharmacy
• Psychiatry
• Public, environmental and occupational health
• Radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging
• Rehabilitation
• Respiratory system
• Rheumatology
• Sport sciences
• Surgery
• Toxicology
• Transplantation
• Tropical medicine
• Urology and nephrology
• Clinical, pre-clinical and health - other topics

Different weights and measures

The subject tables employ the same range of 13 performance indicators used in the overall overall World University Rankings, brought together with scores provided under five categories.

However, the overall methodology is carefully recalibrated for each subject, with the weightings changed to suit the individual fields.

The weightings for the clinical, pre-clinical and health ranking are:

• Teaching: the learning environment
  27.5 per cent
• Research: volume, income and reputation
  27.5 per cent
• Citations: research influence
  35 per cent
• International outlook: staff, students and research
  7.5 per cent
• Industry income: innovation
  2.5 per cent

Criteria

No institution can be included in the overall World University Rankings unless it has published a minimum of 200 research papers a year over the five years we examine.

But for the six subject tables, the threshold drops to 100 papers a year for subjects that generate a high volume of publications and 50 a year in subjects such as social sciences where the volume tends to be lower. Although we apply some editorial discretion, we generally expect an institution to have at least 10 per cent of its staff working in the relevant discipline in order to include it in the subject table.

View the full World University Rankings 2015-2016 methodology

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