The evidence base

The indices

The 303 ranking tables the Index draws on, across 31 distinct indices. Alongside each, the institutions recorded citing it — the backlink that turns a table into an index somebody cares about.

Tables recorded

303

Indices with a citation

19 / 31

Claims on the record

52

A table nobody quotes is a spreadsheet. A table one university has put on its own website is an index that matters to at least somebody, and the Index treats it accordingly — the obscure ones most of all, since an institution that cites a ranking almost nobody has heard of has told you something a well-known ranking never could. The citing institution need not appear in the Index itself: 10 of the 52 claims on record come from universities we do not otherwise track, and they vouch for the index just as well.