The ranking process involved a detailed examination of 166,880 researchers’ profiles from Microsoft Academic Graph. For the discipline of Engineering and Technology, over 17,156 profiles were examined, and scientists from more than 1,548 institutions and affiliations were analyzed.
Each university's position in the ranking is based on each scientist’s D-index using data compiled from Microsoft Academic Graph, which is the most prominent and well-established bibliometric database of this type available to the scientific community. Altogether, DTU has a D-index of 2,627, which places the university in the top 3 in the discipline of engineering and technology.
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) was founded in 1829 by Hans Christian Ørsted, the prominent Danish physicist and chemist. Today, it is a public university located in Copenhagen and organized into 27 departments, by which its top three research fields are biology, physics, and computer science. DTU has 11,031 students enrolled, 7,197 of whom are undergraduates, 3,834 postgraduates, and 1,330 PhD students.
DTU also exemplifies Denmark's usage of the triple helix model of innovation, as the university has strong collaborative ties with both the government and private companies. In particular, DTU's capabilities prove to be very valuable to private companies.
