The University of Cádiz strengthens its international position in the 2018 edition of the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (Shanghai Ranking by subject). Last year, the University appeared for the first time in this classification and this year breaks into three new areas, ranking among the 151-200 universities in the world in Oceanography and ranking, equally, between 301-400 in Mathematics and Chemical Engineering.

The latter is also the position that consolidates the UCA in Environmental Science & Engineering regarding the classification achieved last year. These data are a reflection of the scientific growth carried out by the university institution in Cadiz in recent years.

The Global Ranking of Academic Subjects includes the scientific projection of universities from all five continents and, among other indicators, it values ​​the number of indexed publications in InCites, the standardized index of citations, the awards to the teaching staff, the high impact publications in scientific journals or international co-authorship publications.

Over the last couple of years, the Shanghai Ranking integrates areas of concern in its analysis and, since the 2017 edition, provides 54 research topics, ranging from Natural Sciences to Social Sciences, through Engineering, becoming in a tool for the study of the specialization and the leadership of the universities collected.