UAE University has been listed in this ‎year s release of the 2021 Leiden Ranking ‎https://www.leidenranking.com. The ‎Leiden Ranking lists the world s top ‎universities according to a variety of ‎indicators chosen by the user, thereby ‎producing multiple different rankings. UAE ‎University is the leading national ‎institution on international collaborative ‎research publications (82%), the ‎proportion of papers published in open ‎access journals (50%). The Leiden Ranking ‎also includes a listing of authors by gender ‎where UAEU is now the second highest ‎ranked institution among GCC universities ‎on the proportion of female authored ‎papers.‎

The Leiden Ranking offers important ‎insights into the scientific performance of ‎over 1,200 major universities worldwide ‎using advanced bibliometric indicators. ‎Produced by the Centre for Scientific & ‎Technical Studies (CWTS) at Leiden ‎University, CWTS enriches Web of Science ‎data in a number of ways such as ‎performing its own citation matching ‎identifying industrial collaborations and ‎geocoding of the addresses listed in ‎publications. The Leiden Ranking is ‎calculated from a subset of the Web of ‎Science produced by Clarivate Analytics ‎representing the highest impact journals. ‎

The UAE University is a leading ‎comprehensive university in the region. ‎The University, which was established in ‎‎1976 by the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan ‎Al Nahyan, may Allah bless his soul, enrols ‎around 14,000 students in nine colleges, ‎taught by more than 900 faculty members. ‎It offers 90 diverse academic degrees at ‎the doctorate, Masters, and Bachelor s ‎levels. UAEU aspires to be a University for ‎the Future, with a research-intensive ‎mission that contributes to the UAE ‎government s efforts towards realizing the ‎UAE Vision 2021. ‎