Why my table does not center?

Question

For some reasons my table does not center which is odd since I am doing exactly the same with another table in the same tex file and it works. Could someone help me?

\documentclass[
10pt,
a4paper,
oneside,
headinclude,footinclude,
BCOR5mm,
]{scrartcl} 
\usepackage[scale=0.8]{geometry}
\usepackage[flushleft]{threeparttable}
\usepackage{gensymb}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{caption}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[hbt]
 \centering
  \caption{Indicators used by the ARWU and weight associated with each indicator}
    \begin{tabular}{lc} 
      \toprule
      \textbf{Indicators} & \textbf{Weight} \\
      \midrule
      Number of alumni & 10\% \\
      Staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals & 20\% \\
      Number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Reuters & 20\% \\
      Number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science & 20\% \\
      Number of articles indexed in SCI - ESSCI & 20\% \\
      Per capita performance & 10\% \\
      \bottomrule
     \end{tabular}
    \begin{tablenotes}
     \small
     \item Abbreviations: SCI, Science Citation Index; ESSCI, Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index. \\
    \end{tablenotes}
 \label{tab:label}
\end{table}
\end{document}

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '15 at 18:24

There are not threeparttable environment in your MWE.

MWEE

\documentclass[
10pt,
a4paper,
oneside,
headinclude,footinclude,
BCOR5mm,
]{scrartcl} 
\usepackage[scale=0.8]{geometry}
\usepackage[flushleft]{threeparttable}
\usepackage{gensymb}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{caption}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[hbt]
 \centering
\begin{threeparttable}  
  \caption{Indicators used by the ARWU and weight associated with each indicator}
    \begin{tabular}{lc} 
      \toprule
      \textbf{Indicators} & \textbf{Weight} \\
      \midrule
      Number of alumni & 10\% \\
      Staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals & 20\% \\
      Number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Reuters & 20\% \\
      Number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science & 20\% \\
      Number of articles indexed in SCI - ESSCI & 20\% \\
      Per capita performance & 10\% \\
      \bottomrule
     \end{tabular}
         \begin{tablenotes}
     \small
     \item Abbreviations: SCI, Science Citation Index; ESSCI, Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index. \\
    \end{tablenotes}
 \end{threeparttable}  
 \label{tab:label}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Always useful to read the documentation, I guess! – Thruston May 14 '15 at 18:26 — Thruston, May 14 '15 at 18:26

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 14 '15 at 18:23

Here, I put the tablenotes in a \parbox of limited width.

\documentclass[
10pt,
a4paper,
oneside,
headinclude,footinclude,
BCOR5mm,
]{scrartcl} 
\usepackage[scale=0.8]{geometry}
\usepackage[flushleft]{threeparttable}
\usepackage{gensymb}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{caption}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[hbt]
 \centering
  \caption{Indicators used by the ARWU and weight associated with each indicator}
    \begin{tabular}{lc} 
      \toprule
      \textbf{Indicators} & \textbf{Weight} \\
      \midrule
      Number of alumni & 10\% \\
      Staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals & 20\% \\
      Number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Reuters & 20\% \\
      Number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science & 20\% \\
      Number of articles indexed in SCI - ESSCI & 20\% \\
      Per capita performance & 10\% \\
      \bottomrule
     \end{tabular}\par
\parbox{4.5in}{
    \begin{tablenotes}
     \small
     \item Abbreviations: SCI, Science Citation Index; ESSCI, Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index. \\
    \end{tablenotes}
}
 \label{tab:label}
\end{table}

\noindent\hrulefill
\end{document}

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Why my table does not center?

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