Nonsense This ranking is a huge hoax Do they really want to make us believe that any cheap state university in the U S is better than all leading universities in Europe or elsewhere on this planet It is proven that the system that these Shanghai guys use totally corrupts the outcome An example It is very clear that German Italian Russian scientists are less frequently quoted because they write in languages that barely any American scientists understands Vice versa German Italian and Russian scientists all know English and can quote Americans According to this system this means that the Americans do better work according to any logical thinking the opposite is true And that s just one example