[2] This publication ranks world universities by a certain criteria of scientific paper volume, impact, and performance output.
In addition to the overall ranking, it includes a list of the top universities in six fields and fourteen subjects.
HEEACT ended the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities Project in 2012.
Wu indicated that the HEEACT ranking considers both long-term and short-term performance of a university.
"[11] Vice-president Research for the University of Toronto, Professor Paul Young, remarked that "the HEEACT rankings are relatively new, they are an important and methodologically robust measure of the quantity and quality of research performed by universities around the world.