Sungkyunkwan University ranked as 39th in the list of the World’s Most Innovative Universities 2018 by Reuters. SKKU was the biggest mover among korean universities, which surged 9 places from No. 48 to No. 39.
With partnership with Claribrate Analytics, top 100 universities for the World’s Most Innovative Universities 2018 were announced. They selected universities based on the number of patent applications, the number of patents filed with global patent offices or local authorities, and the percentage of patent citation, etc.
The evaluation index includes ten such as the number of patent submissions, the patent application rate, the ratio of international patents, the number of citations, the influence of citations, the rate of citations, the number of citations, the number of citations between citations, It is a way to rank the scores of the 10 indicators together. Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news provider in thomson Reuters news/media sector. It delivers news to more than 1 billion people every day.