QS Subject Rankings: US and UK Leading, East Asia Rising, Europe Falling
QS have just announced the latest edition of their world university rankings by subject. The methodology is significantly different from the world rankings, consisting of five indicators: Academic Review, Employer Review, H-Index, Citations per Paper, and International Research Network. It therefore places a greater emphasis on research. The weighting assigned to these indicators varies from […]
National Academy of Inventors Announces University Rankings
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) is an organization, based in Florida, comprising 260 universities, government agencies, and research institutes. Since 2013 it has published a list of the top 100 international universities that were granted utility patents during the calendar year. Data is provided by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This year’s […]
University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP)
University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) is published by the Informatics Institute at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. It is based entirely on objective public data and now ranks 3,000 universities. It is not as well-known as some other world rankings, but its methodology is generally reliable and consistent, and it is beginning […]
Eclipse of the Universities – Scimago Institutions Ranking
The SCImago Institutions Rankings are published by Scimago Lab, a company created by research groups at the Spanish National Research Council and the University of Granada and has published institutional rankings since 2009. It provides data for the Webometrics rankings and is a pioneer among ranking agencies by including metrics for gender, open access, sustainability, […]
Financial Times MBA Ranking
The latest edition of the Financial Times MBA rankings was published in the middle of February. There has been a lot of churning, and some famous American and British schools have fallen while several from Asia have improve significantly. The methodology is based on 21 criteria, of which eight are derived from alumni responses, twelve […]
THE Reputation Rankings New Methodology
Times Higher Education (THE) has announced the latest edition of its World Reputation Ranking. There is a new methodology and significant fluctuations, although the ranking is quite stable at the top. THE now uses six indicators. In addition to the vote counts used in previous rankings, they now rate universities according to pairwise comparison, where […]
Nature Index Reveals Shift Away from Western Universities
The Nature Index is a database of research articles in biology, chemistry, Earth and environmental sciences, health sciences, and physical sciences. Currently the Index covers 145 journals chosen by leading researchers, which represent the highest level of research in the natural and health sciences. The current index is based on publications during the year up […]
Webometrics Ranking
The Ranking Web of Universities, better known as Webometrics, uses webometric and bibliometric data from Majestic, Google Scholar, and Scopus. The current indicators are: Visibility; external networks linking to webpages; data derived from Majestic (50% weighting) Transparency/Openness; number of citations from top 310 authors (excluding top20 outliers); data derived from Google Scholar (10% weighting) Excellence; […]
Who are the World’s Innovative Universities?
The Institute of Scientific Information at Clarivate has published a global ranking of universities that have made the greatest contributions to innovation. The ranking is based on citations from unique inventions that have been granted patents over the period 2018-2022. The list of the top fifty innovative universities is dominated by the United States with […]
“IREG Approved” label for the National HE Ranking in Kazakhstan renewed
Following a review by a team of IREG Observatory experts, the “National Ranting of demand for Higher Education Institutions of the Republic of the Republic of Kazakhstan” prepared and published by the Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating (IAAR) of Astana was, for the second time, granted by the IREG Executive Committee the right to […]