US News Changes Law School Rankings
The US News has announced that it will introduce significant changes to its influential law school rankings. It Is likely that the changes will influence other rankings by the publisher and possibly other ranking agencies. Already Harvard Medical School has declared that it will not submit data for the medical school rankings. This followed an […]
GreenMetric Rankings Show Commitment to Sustainability
The GreenMetric rankings, published by Universitas Indonesia, were the first attempt to evaluate universities according to their commitment to and support for environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Western European universities have performed well but Chinese institutions are noticeable by their absence. Indonesia, Malaysia and Chinese Taipei are well represented. The methodology, which has remained stable […]
New Subject Rankings from RUR
Round University Rankings (RUR), whose legal address is now in Tblisi, Georgia, have published the latest edition of their subject rankings. These are based on the world rankings, with a significant change that the financial indicators refer only to research income rather than a combination of research and total income. They include four groups of […]
Assessment and rankings are different tools – IREG position paper on Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment
IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence welcomes the broad debate on research assessment expressed in the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment (CoARA) https://coara.eu/ published under the auspices of the European Union. On several occasions the document refers to academic rankings, however, it misreads the role and place of rankings in the world of higher […]
URAP Rankings Chart Changing Research Landscape
The latest edition of University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) show that French and Chinese universities continue to improve dramatically. These rankings have been published by the Informatics Institute at Middle East Technical University in Ankara. They are research-based with six indicators that measure research quality, quantity, impact, and productivity and international scientific collaboration: Article […]
Employability Ranking: American Universities Perform Well as Employers Look Beyond Academic Performance
Times Higher Education (THE) has just announced the latest edition of the Global Employability University Ranking and Survey (GEURS), conducted by Emerging, the French based Human Resources consulting firm. The ranking is based on a survey of corporate managers in 24 countries who were asked to rate the employability performance of 1000 universities. The top […]
New Highly Cited Researchers List Published
Clarivate Analytics just published the latest list of Highly Cited Researchers. Although much criticised, the list is very influential and is an indicator in the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). There has been increased emphasis on detecting research misconduct such as checking for retracted papers, excessive self-citation or group citation, and implausibly high […]
More Than Our Rank
“More Than Our Rank” is an initiative from the Research Evaluation Group of the International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS). It provides an opportunity for “universities who are proud of their ranking position but also recognize the limitations of the indicators used, and for those who feel that the rankings do not reflect their […]
PitchBook Identifies Top Universities for Entrepreneurs
PitchBook is a financial data and software company with offices in London, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle. It publishes lists of universities whose alumni have started venture capital-backed companies. The rankings can be filtered by size and region, and for public or private institutions. The top universities are concentrated in North America, the UK, […]
US News Announces Global Rankings: East Asia and the Middle East Show Gains
US News has announced the latest edition of the Best Global Universities. As expected, the first five places are held by Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and Oxford. However, the rankings also show that East Asian and Middle Eastern universities are making advances in key disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, and Computer Science. These are […]