Wikipedia ranking of world universities

@article{Lages2015WikipediaRO,
  title={Wikipedia ranking of world universities},
  author={Jos{\'e} Lages and Antoine Patt and Dima L. Shepelyansky},
  journal={The European Physical Journal B},
  year={2015},
  volume={89},
  pages={1-12}
}
Abstract We use the directed networks between articles of 24 Wikipedia language editions for producing the wikipedia ranking of world Universities (WRWU) using PageRank, 2DRank and CheiRank algorithms. This approach allows to incorporate various cultural views on world universities using the mathematical statistical analysis independent of cultural preferences. The Wikipedia ranking of top 100 universities provides about 60% overlap with the Shanghai university ranking demonstrating the… 
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