Scholar Ranking
2023 Ranking of the U.S. Doctoral Programs in Computer Science based on Faculty Citations
The details about the Scholar ranking are described in these articles:
[1] Sai Shi, Aniruddha Maiti, Ashis Kumar Chanda, Slobodan Vucetic. Scholar Ranking 2023: Ranking of Computer Science Departments Based on Faculty Citations. arXiv:2301.03140 [cs.DL], 2023.
[2] Vucetic, S., Chanda, A.K., Zhang, S., Bai, T. and Maiti, A., 2018. Peer assessment of CS doctoral programs shows strong correlation with faculty citations. Communications of the ACM, 61(9), pp.70-76.
We refer to this ranking as the Scholar Ranking because the citation data are collected from Google Scholar. The data collection took place during Fall 2021. To decide who is computer science faculty, we consulted “people” pages of computer science department web sites. For each computer science faculty we extracted t10 index, which refers to the number of citations of his or her 10th highest cited paper. For each computer science department we calculated the Scholar score as
M10: median t10 index of all associate and full professors in the program
G10: geometric mean of t10 index of all associate and full professors in the program
C40: number of assistant, associate, and full professors in the program with t10 index of at least 83 (corresponds to 40th percentile among associate and full professors in computer science)
C60: number of assistant, associate, and full professors in the program with t10 index of at least 154 (corresponds to 60th percentile among associate and full professors in computer science)
The Scholar ranking was obtained by finding a formula that matches U.S. News ranking of computer science doctoral programs published in 2022. The U.S. News ranking is obtained by peer assessment. The correlation coefficient between U.S. News ranking and Scholar ranking is impressive 0.91, which demonstrates that faculty citations have a large impact on peer assessment of department quality.
The listed table also contains the following columns:
P10: each faculty is assigned a
percentile based on his or her t10 index compared to all associate and
full professors of computer science. P10 is the average percentile of
associate and full professors in the program
C80: number of assistant, associate, and full professors in the program with t10 index of at least 301
(corresponds to 80th percentile among associate and full professors in computer science)
US News: U.S. News ranking score of CS doctoral programs published in 2022
Data: The following are two raw data files containing
information about 185 U.S. CS departments and information about 5,574 CS
faculty from those departments.
Also, we provide a Matlab file that uses those two files to produce
Scholar ranking and all the results reported in the manuscript.
Faculty Citation Data: The list of 5,574 faculty names with their citation indices and affiliation
CS Department Data: The list of 185 U.S. university names with their U.S. News rankings and data collection comments
Matlab File: Matlab code that processes the two data sets and produces ranking and other results