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University of Maribor is among 600 best universities in the world according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016-2017 and the best among universities in Slovenia (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2017/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/locations/SI/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/scores). University of Maribor ranking is 501-600, while University of Ljubljana ranking is 601-800. Values of performance indicators for both universities are similar, except for citations. This is the reason why University of Maribor is ranked higher than University of Ljubljana. The article »Self-Adapting Control Parameters in Differential Evolution: A Comparative Study on Numerical Benchmark Problems« is the most cited journal paper at University of Maribor. As such its contribution to University of Maribor ranking is important. Citations of this paper at various digital libraries currently are:

• Web of Science 1044
• Scopus 1391
• Google Scholar 1778

The authors: Janez Brest, Sašo Greiner, Borko Bošković, Marjan Mernik and Viljem Žumer, employees of Institute of Computer Science, published this article in the journal »IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation«, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 646-657, 2006. JCR IF (2006): 3.77, EX - computer science, theory & methods ; 2/75. The article is available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4016057/