Based on the measurement procedures, this project calculates a university’s score for each of the nine indicators. For each indicator, the university with the highest number receives the maximum points (100); the other universities’ numbers are subdivided by the highest number and are converted decimally into their respective scores. For example, if University A has the highest number M for Indicator X, it receives 100 for that indicator, while University B with a number of N receives (N/M×100) for that particular indicator. Finally, the project calculates the final score of each university by the indicator weightings presented in Table 1 and sorts the universities by their final scores. Universities with the same scores are sorted alphabetically. It should be noted that many universities obtain similar scores, and the slight differences of the final scores must be interpreted carefully. A university’s slightly higher score than another university’s may not necessarily suggest its superiority in scientific research because the two universities might be in very close proximity in the ranking.