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 | | An academic ranking of world universities published on the web Aug. 12 by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, lists the University of California, San Diego as 13th among 1,000 international institutions ranked. |
 | | This latest academic ranking follows rankings announced earlier this week by Newsweek/Kaplan in which UCSD was named the “hottest university for science,” and an annual survey just issued by US News and World Report which rated UCSD as the 7th best public university in the nation. |
 | | “Ranking indicators include the alumni and staff winning major international awards, highly cited researchers in major research fields, articles published in selected top journals, articles indexed by major citation indexes, and performance per capita, “ the authors said. |
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