Over the past several months we have developed a ranking based on a hard, measurable method for the top 50 U.S. universities. "Hard, measurable" != meaningful.

Over the past several months we have developed a ranking based on a hard, measurable method for the top 50 U.S. universities. "Hard, measurable" != meaningful. And counts of articles published are especially meaningless as measures of the quality of either the research actually done in these departments, of of the overall educational experience at those places. It's like measuring developer quality by LoC committed, or the number of JIRA tickets they've closed.