QS have redesigned their subject ranking methodology and will release the revised results on April 29th. The modifications are:
- reintroducing regional weightings in the academic and employer surveys
- ·counting articles in all the subjects to which they are assigned
- adjusting weightings usually to increase those for citations and h- index and reducing those for the surveys
- increasing the minimum number of papers required for inclusion in the rankings
- extending survey samples to 5 years.