Johns Hopkins has often been honored with respectable titles, but none quite as prestigious as the one bestowed on the school by the Academic Ranking of World Universities this year. Named the No. 4 best medical school in the world, Johns Hopkins professes an impeccable record of remarkable alum and highly cited researchers, not to mention its other claim to fame: top hospital in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report.
The ARWU ranked institutions according to a series of indicators and weights, scoring schools on their academic or research performance in the field of medicine. The ranking — developed by the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University — looked at the number of alums who have won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine since ’61; staff who have won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine since ’71; cited researchers in the categories of Clinical Medicine, Pharmacology, and Social Sciences; articles indexed in Science Citation Index and the percentage of papers actually published in the top 20 percent of medicine journals.
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