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THE Methodology

The Times Higher Education (THE) methodology is explained in detail on the THE website.

Below is a detailed breakdown of each metric in the THE Ranking 2024:

In the 2024 THE WUR Edition, there was a slight revision to the metrics, with some new metrics introduced and a re-weighting of others. 

The biggest change was to the Research Quality Pillar (previously Citations metric). They used to have one metric in this pillar, - Field Weighted Citation Impact accounting for 30% of the ranking.

They have retained this metric but reduced it to 15% of the ranking and introduced 3 new metrics worth 5% each

• Research strength (5%) – a guide to how strong typical research is, based on the 75th percentile of field-weighted citation impact
• Research excellence (5%) – a guide to the amount of world-leading research at an institution, based on the volume of research in the top 10% worldwide
• Research influence (5%) – a broader look at excellence, based on the volume of research recognised by the most influential research in the world.

Additionally they introduced a new metric for Patents (2%) (measuring how often a university's research is cited in Patents) while also normalising the International metrics taking into account the population size of each country