Reuters, in association with Claribrate Analytics, released "The World's Most Innovative Universities 2018" list. Sungkyunkwan University was ranked 39th.
The rankings are based on an evaluation index including ten categories, 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, etc.