Physics Links                   Various Academic Rankings                      Other Links

Local:
JHU Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Institute for Quantum Matter Seminar
JHU Condensed Matter Physics Research Page
Institute for Quantum Matter
JHU Condensed Matter Journal Club
JHU Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Ferdinand G. Brickwedde Lectures in Physics
TIPAC Theory Seminar

mail.pha.jhu.edu (JHU PHA webmail)
MindTerm (web based ssh access to JHU computers)

How to get to Bloomberg Center
Satellite view of Bloomberg Center
Clickable map of JHU Homewood Campus (Bloomberg Center is the link #56)
JHU Homewood Campus parking map (Park in the red/blue area next to Bloomberg Center and Chiller Plant or at the meters in the yellow area next to ROTC)

Non-local:
e-Print Archive
NSF Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (2000 School on Superconductivity)
NSF Condensed Matter Theory Program
American Physical Society
SPIN Database Search
Ultimate Physics Research Page (by R. Bhat)


Various Academic Rankings

Undergraduate:
US News & World Report 2008 Top National Universities
US News & World Report 2008 Top National Universities ranked by Peer Assessment Scores (Academic Reputation)
JHU -- #8 (Academic Reputation), #14 (Overall)

Graduate & research:
US Top Physics Departments (Academic Analytics)
US Top Research Universities by Broad Field Rankings ( Academic Analytics)
US Top Research Universities (Academic Analytics)
ranked in 2005-2007 by Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index developed by Academic Analytics. More on their publicly available rankings can be found here.
US Top Research Universities 2006 (The Center for Measuring University Performance)
large ongoing project ranking universities by various measures of research and academic excellence (for details see the Center's full report )
Top US Universities in Non-Biomedical Sciences
ranked in 2007 by Molinari & Molinari universal impact index h_m (see below)
Top US Universities by Total Citations
ranked by total Web of Knowledge Citations in 2000-2004 period -- details in Charlton & Andras
US Top Physics Graduate Programs (Diamond & Graham)
US Top Research Universities (Diamond & Graham)
ranked by Citation/Award Density and Z-scores (for details and more rankings click on Prof. H. D. Graham's webpage )
US Top Physics Graduate Programs (based on NRC, NSF and NCES data)
ranked by Faculty Reputation/Research Activity, Educational Quality and Funding Measures (for details and more rankings click on phds.org )
Top US Universities (THES 2009)
rankings by The Times of London's Higher Education Supplement (see below for more of THES)
Top US Research Universities (Prelaw Handbook)
ranked by Z-scores combining Shanghai, THES and CMUP rankings. Details at Prelaw Handbook.

A sampler of JHU rankings (includes the worldwide rankings below) :
Physics & Astronomy Department -- #2 & #8 (Academic Analytics), #7 (Diamond & Graham), #10 (NRC/NSF/NCES-based)
Physical and Mathematical Sciences -- #3 (Academic Analytics), #10 (Diamond & Graham)
Non-Biomedical Sciences (Physical & Mathematical Sciences + Engineering + etc.) -- #2 (Molinari & Molinari universal impact index)
Johns Hopkins University -- #1 (NSF, by overall research funding), #2 (ScienceWatch, by overall citations 1999-2009), #2 (by total WoK citations 2000-2004), #6 (Diamond & Graham), #6 (Center for Measuring University Performance), #7 (Academic Analytics), #9 Prelaw Handbook, #9 (THES 2009, 2008), #10 & #7 (THES 2007)

Most-Cited Institutions in the World
world's top institutions ranked by overall citations in the 1999-2009 period, courtesy of ScienceWatch (more details here )
Top 500 World Universities (Taiwan)
2009 rankings based on performance of scientific papers by Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan
Top 300 World Universities in Natural Sciences (Taiwan)
2009 rankings based on the institutional Hirsch's h-index (see below for size dependence of h-index) by Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan
20 of the Top World Universities
2007 rankings using Hirsch's h-index adjusted for size (universal impact index h_m), developed by Molinari & Molinari
Top Universities of the World
2007 rankings using Journal Gatekeepers Indicator developed by Braun et al.
Top 500 World Universities (SJTU)
ongoing project at Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Institute of Higher Education
Top 100 World Universities THES 2009
Top 100 World Universities THES 2008
Top 100 World Universities THES 2008 -- Citations
Top 100 World Universities THES 2007
Top 100 World Universities THES 2007 -- Citations
ongoing project at The Times of London's Higher Education Supplement (THES). More details are available here. For the sake of objective reality the reader should correct for a grotesque bias in favor of the UK and British Commonwealth institutions (ie, Imperial College London, McGill (CAN) and Australian National University are ranked above Stanford, Cornell and Berkeley, University of Edinburgh above ETH and University of Tokyo, etc.).


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