THE University Impact Rankings 2019 by SDG: quality education methodology

This ranking focuses on universities’ contribution to early years and lifelong learning, their pedagogy research and their commitment to inclusive education. As early years provision and lifelong learning are not the main focus of education at universities, this table should not be used to assess the overall quality of teaching at a university. Please view the methodology for the University Impact Rankings 2019 to find out how these data are used in the overall ranking. Proportion of research papers that are viewed or downloaded (10%) Proportion of research papers in the top 10 per cent of journals as defined by Citescore (10%) Number of publications (7%).This focuses on research that is relevant to pedagogy, measuring paper views, the proportion of papers in the top 10 per cent of cited journals, and the volume of research produced. The data are provided by Elsevier’s Scopus dataset, based on a query of keywords associated with SDG 4 (quality education). The data include all indexed publications between 2013 and 2017 and are normalised across the range using z-scoring.