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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-09

AI University Index

aiunivranking.com ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 78.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A Korean index measuring the AI research strength of four-year universities using AI publication data from OpenAlex.

Why it surfaced

The index publishes only its research component for now, explicitly refusing to invent total scores, tiers, or overall rankings while the other four areas remain incomplete. Its methodology is unusually inspectable: recent three-year averages, log transformation, outlier trimming, T-score normalization, and a 60:40 absolute-scale-to-per-capita weighting are all stated on the page.

Explicit Chemistry, Side A

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This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-09 Domain Arrivals issue.