Outstanding placements for Mainz University in the international CWTS Leiden Ranking 2016

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ranks in the top group of European universities in the fields of Geosciences, Physics, and Social Sciences

24.05.2016

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has achieved excellent results in the fields Geosciences, Physics, and Social Sciences in the international 2016 CWTS University Ranking of Leiden University. In these subjects, JGU was placed among the top ten of all ranked German universities and is thus also among Europe's leading group of institutes of higher education.

The CWTS Leiden Ranking has been published annually since 2007 by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University in the Netherlands. The internationally recognized research-oriented university ranking is based exclusively on analyses of the publications of the 750 leading research universities worldwide, using as its source the Web of Science publication database.