Nature Index Shows Changes in Research Quality
Nature Index is a database of articles in leading journals in the fields of life sciences, earth and environmental sciences, chemistry, physics and, starting this year, health sciences. It is regarded as a valid measure of scientific research of the highest quality. The latest edition shows a significant increase in high quality publications by Chinese […]
“Top-200 Ukraine 2023” ranking published despite the war
The Center for International Projects “Eurosvita” in Kyiv published the seventeenth academic ranking in Ukraine. In defiance to the war, Ukrainian universities demonstrate stability. Faculty, academics, staff and students are doing their best to create high-quality human capital and advanced technologies for the country’s defense and its post-war reconstruction and innovative transformation. To emphasize the […]
Supercomputer Ranking: Has China Faltered?
The TOP500 world ranking of the world’s most powerful computer systems is based on “Linpack, which means that systems are ranked only by their ability to solve a set of linear equations, A x = b, using a dense random matrix A.” Rankings are compiled by four experts from NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University […]
THE Impact Rankings 2023
Times Higher Education (THE) have published the fifth edition of their Impact rankings which attempt to measure the commitment of universities to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These rankings have expanded rapidly since 2019 and now include 1,591 universities. Universities are ranked according to their performance in four criteria related to the SDGs, […]
Round University Ranking Introduces New Methodology
The latest edition of Round University Ranking was published in Tbilisi, Georgia. The current methodology, which has changed significantly from last year, is based on twenty indicators in four categories as follows: Teaching; Academic staff per student and per bachelor degrees, doctoral degrees per academic staff and per bachelor degrees, and online visibility measured by […]
Self-Assessment from Leiden Ranking
The Leiden Ranking, published by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) Leiden University, is highly respected by researchers and scholars. It measures publications in reputable journals and in resent years has included rankings of open access publication and gender distribution in research. Recently, Andrea Reyes Elizondo and Mark Neijssel of CWTS gave a […]
Latest CWUR Ranking Measures Employability and Faculty Quality
The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) is an organisation that is now based in the UAE after leaving Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. It is best known for its attempts to capture graduate quality although its does include conventional measures of research output and excellence. There are currently seven indicators: Education (25%); alumni who have […]
Qassim University from Saudi Arabia joins IREG as its full member
The General Assembly of IREG Observatory that meeting in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 28 April unanimously voted to admit Qassim University from Al-Mulida, Qassim Region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as full member of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence.
IREG 2023 Conference on breakthrough in rankings
The word “breakthrough” characterized discussion at IREG 2023 Conference in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (27-28nApril), and led to the conclusion that nothing in the world of rankings will be the same in the coming years. : “I often participate in various conferences and seminars, but I have not met such a substantive and engaged discussion for many […]
IREG Observatory welcomes three universities from Uzbekistan as its full members
The General Assembly of IREG Observatory meeting in Tashkent following the IREG 2023 Conference admitted as its members: Tashkent State Dental Institute, National Research University Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers and Tashkent State University of Economics.