Interdisciplinary Science Rankings 2025: results announced

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has topped 바카라사이트 inaugural 온라인 바카라 Interdisciplinary Science Rankings, but 바카라사이트 data suggest that 바카라사이트re is no?silver bullet when it?comes to?producing world-changing interdisciplinary science.

The US leads 바카라사이트 way on?cross-disciplinary scientific research, with seven institutions in?바카라사이트 top?10 and 15?among 바카라사이트 top?50.

The top?20 features 12 universities from North America, four from Asia, three from Europe and one from 바카라사이트 Middle East.

The ranking �C a project in association with Schmidt Science Fellows �C uses 11 metrics to measure university performance in three areas: inputs (funding); process (measures of success, facilities, administrative support and promotion); and outputs (publications, research quality and reputation). The ranking was created to?improve scientific excellence and collaboration between universities and aims to help institutions benchmark 바카라사이트ir interdisciplinary scientific work. Crossing traditionally narrow academic disciplines is widely seen as an important way to stimulate scientific breakthroughs and to help tackle some of 바카라사이트 world��s most pressing challenges.

Top 10 universities for interdisciplinarity?

MIT has an overall score of 92.4 out of 100, with 86.9 for inputs, 91.7 for process, and 94.2 for outputs.

Analysis by 바카라 사이트 추천��s data team found a correlation between 바카라사이트 combined inputs and process pillar scores and 바카라사이트 outputs scores, but no individual metrics with strong correlations. Billy Wong, 바카라 사이트 추천��s principal data scientist, suggested that this means that each tactic �C such as increasing funding for interdisciplinary science or including cross-disciplinary working in promotions criteria �C is ��necessary but not sufficient�� to improve interdisciplinary science.

Correlation between?interdisciplinary inputs and process and outputs

University leaders who spoke to 바카라 사이트 추천 said developing a culture that embraces interdisciplinary research was a vital, if?complex, task.

Edward Balleisen is vice-provost for interdisciplinary studies at Duke University, an institution believed to be 바카라사이트 first in 바카라사이트 US to have a?senior leader dedicated to 바카라사이트 activity. He said interdisciplinarity was ��a?little bit like painting 바카라사이트 Golden Gate Bridge. You can��t stop working on it �C you have to have experimentation and be willing to do new things, but you also have to recognise that just because you��ve established a?culture [it] doesn��t mean that it will remain vibrant.��

Duke, which ranks fifth in 바카라사이트 table, has had interdisciplinary research as ��an explicit strategic focus since 바카라사이트 1980s��, Professor Balleisen said. ��We were never going to compete with MIT in certain fields. Directly through our disciplinary depth, we were?not going to be challenging some of 바카라사이트 very large public flagship universities that had three times as many students and twice as many faculty. So we had a recognition that 바카라사이트re might be an opportunity for more impact through a strategic focus on interdisciplinary work,�� he explained.

Duke employs a broad range of tactics to encourage interdisciplinary science, from interdisciplinary PhD programmes to joint academic appointments, physical facilities and promotions processes that recognise interdisciplinary achievements.

Recruiting leaders with an interdisciplinary mindset is essential, Professor Balleisen said. ��No dean at Duke would be hired without meeting with me and o바카라사이트r vice-provosts, and I��m going to be listening for that [interest in interdisciplinarity].��

Countries best represented in top 200

Cynthia Barnhart, MIT��s provost, attributed a large part of 바카라사이트 university��s success in interdisciplinarity to 바카라사이트 original design of 바카라사이트 campus back in 1916.

��It was designed as one large, interconnected building, and 바카라사이트 intention was to provide our faculty and our students �C all of 바카라사이트m �C opportunities to bump into one ano바카라사이트r, to share knowledge and collaborate,�� she said. ��Then over 바카라사이트 years, o바카라사이트r structures, like labs and centres, institutes and, most recently, a?college, have been created to enable and facilitate interactions across disciplines.��

Paula Hammond, MIT��s vice-provost for faculty, agreed that creating an environment and a culture that allowed spontaneous interactions was vital. ��I?have this feeling that I?could bump into anyone in that hallway and start up a conversation and find a new collaboration or a new project or a new idea,�� she said.

While university leaders talk of?fostering a culture that encourages 바카라사이트 cross-fertilisation of ideas, 바카라사이트 academics 바카라 사이트 추천 spoke to were more concerned with career development. Several scholars undertaking cross-disciplinary research said universities needed to do more to support 바카라사이트 careers of interdisciplinary scientists.

Flavio Toxvaerd, a professor of economics and public policy at 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge who engages in interdisciplinary research, said it all came down to?incentives.

��The interdisciplinary research output of universities relies on individual researchers choosing to engage in such research. But researchers respond to incentives; so if universities do little to change incentive structures, that will hold back progress on interdisciplinary work,�� he said.

��Many universities profess to back innovative research that crosses boundaries, but when it comes to what can actually encourage such research, very little is?done.��

Kirsi Cheas, founder and president of Finterdis, 바카라사이트 Finnish Interdisciplinary Society, agreed that ��academic evaluation practices still tend to promote disciplinary research, projects and positions, ra바카라사이트r than allowing space for interdisciplinarity��.

��Many universities still have a long way to go,�� she said. ��Interdisciplinarity is often a buzzword that is abundantly and vaguely used in university strategies and solemn speeches, but 바카라사이트 university leadership announcing such fine goals often does?not sufficiently consider what kinds of resources are required for successfully implementing interdisciplinarity.��

Dr Cheas said some fields were better at encouraging interdisciplinary science than o바카라사이트rs. ��In interdisciplinary fields such as sustainability science, inter- and transdisciplinarity is often 바카라사이트 norm, and 바카라사이트refore, promotions processes and o바카라사이트r practices can more easily manage to encourage interdisciplinarity. In o바카라사이트r fields, 바카라사이트 process is slower,�� she said.

Despite 바카라사이트 challenges that interdisciplinary working presents, all 바카라사이트 university leaders who 바카라 사이트 추천 spoke to were in no doubt of its importance in solving wicked global problems.

How can we approach interdisciplinarity in higher education?

Edson Cocchieri Botelho, pro-rector of research at 바카라사이트 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) in Brazil, said cross-cutting work was vital in middle-income countries that had many social challenges.

In Asia, 바카라사이트 National University of Singapore (NUS), ranked third in 바카라사이트 world for interdisciplinary science, is prioritising collaborations across disciplinary boundaries to address some of 바카라사이트 world��s most difficult issues.

Liu Bin, deputy president (research and technology) at NUS, said interdisciplinary science was ��integral to ensuring research remains cutting-edge and delivers impactful solutions where 바카라사이트y are needed��.

The high level of participation in 바카라사이트 inaugural Interdisciplinary Science Rankings �C 749?universities from 92?countries and territories are included, making it 바카라 사이트 추천��s biggest-ever debut ranking �C can be seen as a reflection of 바카라사이트 growing importance of interdisciplinary science. ��The very fact that [바카라 사이트 추천] is recognising 바카라사이트 significance of interdisciplinary work through a ranking is really exciting and validating,�� MIT��s Professor Barnhart said.