When PhDs realize they won’t be professors

By Josh Dehaas. Young academics struggle with the transition from school to work
Universities from some provinces outperform in Leiden Ranking. A new global ranking that shows the degree of impact scientists at 750 universities had on the most important journals from 2009 to 2013 includes 28 Canadian schools.
While our top three entries won’t surprise many, the success of one province will.
The CWTS Leiden Ranking offers multiple measures of scientific research quality and output but most important is the PP(top 10%), which considers the proportion of publications from a university that made it into the top 10 per cent of the most frequently cited journals (think Nature and Science). The top 100 list is dominated by U.S. and U.K. universities with multiple entries from Switzerland, Netherlands and France, and one each from Canada, Israel, Ireland, Germany, Denmark and Singapore. Read more...