 "Maclean's" 2020 university rankings also ranked the University of Toronto first in its reputation rankings, the fifth consecutive time the university placed there.The university was ranked in spite of having opted out — along with several other universities in Canada — of participating in "Maclean's" graduate survey since 2006.The university's research performance has been noted in several bibliometric university rankings, which uses citation analysis to evaluates the impact a university has on academic publications.