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CRA成立于 1972年, 由200多家活跃于计算机领域的北美研究机构组成，包括各个高校的计算机系，政府、工业界、和大学的实验室和研究中心，以及各大相关学会组织，如AAAI, ACM, CACS/AIC, IEEE Computer Society, SIAM, USENIX等，其目标是通过政府、业界、和学界的紧密合作，促进计算机科学领域的研究创新。
US News的这个排名，显然动了CRA的奶酪。在公开信中，CRA声称，US News排名方法在计算机领域存在严重问题，如只纳入期刊论文、而没有考虑在计算机领域更具影响的会议论文。所谓的研究声誉，对于横跨半球的两个学校而言，也像苹果和梨子一样，不具可比性。此外，排名数据也不公开和透明。因此，CRA论断，这个排名就是胡扯：
Anyone with knowledge of CS research will see these rankings for what they are —
nonsense
— and ignore them. But others may be seriously misled.
据称，CRA曾就排名与US News多次交涉，排名推出之后甚至要求US News撤稿，但US News并未理会。
以下为CRA公开声明全文，我们也欢迎各位读者分享观感。
CRA Statement on US News and World Report Rankings of Computer Science Universities
To the Computing Research Community:
The latest US News and World Report (USN&WR) ranking of Computer Science (CS) at global universities
does a grave disservice
to USN&WR readers and to CS departments all over the world. Last week, we respectfully asked the ranking be withdrawn. Unfortunately USN&WR declined.
The methodology used — rankings based on journal publications collected by Web of Science — ignores conference publications and as a consequence does not accurately reflect how research is disseminated in the CS community or how faculty receive recognition or have impact. Furthermore, the list of venues is not public. So while some may debate the soundness of any bibliometric-based rankings, there will be no debate about the flaws in the rankings USN&WR has published; the methodology makes inferences from the wrong data without transparency and, consequently, it arrives at
an absurd ranking
