University of Tsukuba Ranks 38th in Asia's Most Innovative Universities

To commemorate the University of Tsukuba joining the Top 75 rankings of Asia's Most Innovative Universities, Ms. Asako Watanabe, Senior Director, Government & Academic, and Ms. Tomoko Masuda, Account Manager, of Clarivate Analytics met with Vice President Hiroaki Nishikawa (Academic Intelligence), and Vice President Caroline Benton (Global Affairs) to present a trophy on July 21, 2017.

In June 2017, Clarivate Analytics, with headquarters in Philadelphia, United States, published Reuters Top75 in cooperation with Thomson Reuters which ranks Asia's most innovative universities.

The process began by identifying a subset of 600 academic institutions globally that published the greatest number of articles in scholarly journals from 2010 to 2015, as indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection database. Then, the candidate universities were reduced to those institutions that filed 50 or more patents. Each candidate university was evaluated using various indicators including how many patents were filed with global patent offices and local authorities and how often the university's patents were cited by researchers and so on.