ASSESSMENT OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF AZERBAIJAN’S UNIVERSITIES Ph.D.Sardar SHABANOV Sardar.Shabanov@gmail.com AICT 2011, Baku, OCTOBER 12-14

Table 1. Criteria and Weights for ARWU (Shanghai Model) Indicator Code Weight Quality of Education Alumni of an Institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals Alumni 10% Quality of Faculty Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals Award 20% Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories HiCI Research Output Articles published in Nature and Science N&S Articles Indexed in SCIE and SSCI SCI Size of Institution Academic performance with respect to the size of an institution Size Total 100%

Table 2. World Universities Ranking According Shanghai Model 1 Harvard University 2 Stanford University 3 University of California, Berkeley 4 University of Cambridge 5 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 6 California Institute of Technology 7 Columbia University 8 Princeton University 9 University of Chicago 10 University of Oxford

Table 3. World Universities Ranking According Leiden Yellow Model for 2003-2007 years COUNTRY UNIVERSITY PUBLICATION (x 1000) 1 US HARVARD UNIV 57,124 2 JP UNIV TOKYO 35,622 3 CA UNIV TORONTO 31,780 4 UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES 29,524 5 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV 28,837 6 UNIV MICHIGAN - ANN ARBOR 28,337 7 UNIV WASHINGTON - SEATTLE 28,176 8 KYOTO UNIV 25,905 9 UK UNIV COLL LONDON 25,245 10 STANFORD UNIV 25,098 11 UNIV PENN 24,927 12 UNIV CAMBRIDGE 24,748 13 COLUMBIA UNIV 23,952 14 UNIV OXFORD 23,596 Etc. 59 UNIV ARIZONA 14,623 60 RU MOSCOW LOMONOSOV STATE UNIV 14,535 61 NL UNIV AMSTERDAM 14,464

azerbaijan technical university 83 Table 4. Azerbaijan’s Universities Ranking for 2005-2009 According Leiden Yellow Model № UNİVERSİTY NUMBER OF ARTICLES RANK 1 baku state university 339 2 azerbaijan technical university 83 3 azerbaijan state oil academy 72 4 azerbaijan medical university 41 5 azerbaijan national academy of aviation 13 6 azerbaijan state pedagogy university 12 7 azerbaijan state economy university 9 8 ganja state university 8-9 qafqaz university 10 azerbaijan university of architecture engineers

11 azerbaijan cooperation university 5 11-12 12 sumgait state university 13 azerbaijan diplomacy academy 4 14 nakhchivan state university 3 15 azerbaijan university 2 15-16 16 khazar university 17 azerbaijan military high school 1 17-20 18 azerbaijan state technology university 19 azerbaijan state university of languages 20 of phisical culture and sport TOTAL 614

Table 5. Weights of Some Indicators 1 monograph 69,23 2 Impact Factor Journal”s paper 59,62 3 Internationalpatent 52,31 4 Avroasian patent 7,31 5 Patent of Republic 3,62 6 Handbook 36,92 7 Report at an international conference 10,98 8 Tutorial 18,46 9 journal article (don’t have IF) recommended by Higher Attestation Commission of CIS countries   13,46 10 article on journal (don’t have IF) recommended by Higher Attestation Commission of Azerbaijan Republic 6,08 11 Report at an Republic conference 2,03

Table 6. Rank Of The Azerbaijan’s Universities for Scientific and Pedagogical Success UNIVERSITY TOTAL SCORE 1 Baku State University 56 197 2 Azerbaijan State Pedagoji University 13 615 3 Nakhchivan State University 10 553 4 Azerbaijan State University of Economics 10 276 5 Azerbaijan State Industrial University 9 650 6 Azerbaijan Technical UNiversity 8 204 7 Baku Slavic University 7 292 8 Azerbaijan University of Languages 7 220 9 Sumgayit State University 5 375 10 Azerbaijan Architecture and Construction University 4 911 11 Azerbaijan Institute of Teachers 4 563

12 Ganja State University 3 955 13 Khazar University 3 857 14 Azerbaijan Technolodgical University 2 735 15 Azerbaijan State Culture and   Art University 2 441 16 Azerbaijan Academy of Public Administration 2 000 17 Nakhchivan Institute of Teachers 1 830 18 Baku Music Academy 1 702 19 The Azerbaijan National Conservatory 1 237 20 Lankoran State University 961 21 Mingachevir Polytechnic Institute 572 22 Azerbaijan State Academy of Arts 349

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