ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To make a detailed analysis of the four international discipline ranking index systems, namely QS, ARWU, THE and US News and provide suggestions for the construction of world-class pharmaceutical disciplines. METHODS: Literature survey, website survey, comparative analysis and content analysis was used. RESULTS: The four international disciplines ranking index systems all set the threshold of dissertation publication, inspected the teaching situation and academic output, but there are differences in disciplines classification, data sources, scientific research output index and internationalization index. CONCLUSION: The status quo of pharmacy discipline ranking in Chinese universities is analyzed by data comparison. Suggestions on building world-class pharmaceutical discipline are put forward from four aspects: scientific research output, international cooperation, personnel training and information construction.