SCImago’s Ranking has New Social Metrics

The SCImago Institutions Rankings are published by a company that is a spin-off from the SCImago Research Group, an organization supported by the Spanish National Research Council, the University of Granada, the Charles III University of Madrid, and other institutions. The current methodology is based on three factors: Research, Innovation, and Societal. This year three […]

New Ranking from Iran

The Islamic World Science and Technology Monitoring and Citation Institute (ISC) was established in Azerbaijan in 2008 and is now based in Iran. It has published the Islamic World University Rankings since 2014 and world rankings since 2018. The performance indicators are grouped into four broad areas: Research (60% weighting); including publications, citations, normalized citation impact, […]

Changes to the Carnegie Classification

The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education was first published in 1970 and is currently produced by the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institutions are generally divided into categories based on the highest qualification awarded. Currently, the categories are: Doctorate-granting universities Master’s colleges and universities […]

Rector of IREG member, appointed Minister of HE of Uzbekistan

Kongratbay Sharipov rector of Tashkent State University of Economics has been appointed Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Innovations of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Tashkent State University of Economics, a member of IREG Observatory hosted the IREG 2023 Conference last April. It is a good occasion to thank Prof. Sharipov and his TSUE staff once […]

CWTS Leiden Publishes First Open Ranking

The CWTS (Centre for Science and Technology Studies) at Leiden University has announced a significant step forward in its quest for transparency and honesty in the publication of global university rankings. CWTS has already been ranking universities according to the number and proportion of open-access publications. Last year, British institutions, including the London School of […]

Latest Reputation Ranking from THE

Times Higher Education (THE) has published the latest edition of its reputation rankings. This is based on a survey of researchers who were published in journals indexed in the Scopus database over a five-year period. Before 2022 this was conducted by Elsevier but has since been brought in-house. The survey was conducted between October 2022 […]

Latest Webometrics Ranking

The latest edition of the Ranking Web of Universities, usually known as Webometrics, has been released. It is now in its twentieth year of publication and combines web activity and research measures. It is published twice a year by the Cybermetrics Lab of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Spain and is the most […]

Indonesia HE Strives for World Class Status

An article in University World News by Kafil Yamin reports that Indonesia is actively seeking to enhance the status and international presence of its universities. The country’s education minister has stated that it is actively supporting public and private universities to achieve world class status. There have been concerns about the quality of Indonesian research […]

New Ranking from Research.com

The Research.com ranking Is derived from data in the Microsoft Academic Graph at the end of 2022. It measures the H index of researchers affiliated with global universities. Affiliation information is taken from Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Graph. The ranking is based on citations accumulated over a career so there is a clear bias […]

Nature Index Documents the Rise of Chinese Research

Nature Index is a ranking based on primary research articles in 145 highly reputed journals in the medical and natural sciences. Last November, it published a supplement about the rising stars of the international research world. It is clear that China is by far the fastest-rising country as far as publications in Nature Index are […]