AUR 2026 v1.0: Data and Replication Package for the Ayman University Ranking

This repository contains the data and replication materials for AUR 2026 v1.0 (Ayman University Ranking), an Olympic-style, non-compensatory framework for measuring elite prize-recognized scientific distinction at the university level. AUR ranks institutions lexicographically using three tiers: (1) Gold - unique qualitying Nobel laureates in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economic Sciences, credited according to institutional aftiliation at the time of the award announcement; (2) Silver - Fields Medal affiliations at the time of the award; and (3) Bronze — Nature Index Count for articles published in Nature and Science during calendar year 2025. The replication package includes the frozen institution-level inputs, laureate-level Nobel audit trail, Fields Medal audit (1936-2026), institutional crosswalk and normalization decisions, candidate-universe data, validation and sensitivity-analysis outputs, and executable Python code for reproducing the frozen AUR 2026 v1.0 Top 100. The package accompanies the manuscript: "The Ayman University Ranking (AUR): An Olympic-Style, Outcome-Based Framework for Measuring Scientific Excellence." Version: AUR 2026 v1.0 Frozen: 17 August 2026 Author: Ayman Kordi, Independent Researcher, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.