The Times Higher Education (THE) is a British magazine specialising in higher education worldwide.
THE's World University Rankings is an annual publication that ranks universities worldwide. Listed varieties are assessed based on performance indicators that cut across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
The 2023 ranking analysed over 121 million citations across more than 15.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 40,000 scholars globally.
The magazine said it collected over 680,000 datapoints from more than 2,500 institutions that submitted data for the latest ranking.