Rankometer Simplifies Global Rankings
Rankometer is a composite global university ranking produced by AppliedHE of Singapore. It combines the ranks of universities in five of the better-known rankings: Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, QS World University Rankings, the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities, Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics), and Leiden Ranking (percentage of publications in top […]
Shanghai Subject Rankings: A Tripolar Research World
The Shanghai Ranking Consultancy have published the latest edition of their Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS). A total of 54 subjects in Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. There are no rankings for the arts or humanities The methodology is based on the following indicators with weightings that are adjusted […]
The Economist Closes its MBA Rankings
The Economist has announced that its MBA ranking will be discontinued and that the website where it is published will be closed in September. An article by Marc Ethier in POETS & QUANTS reports that the ranking, which was suspended in 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic, was boycotted by some leading business schools […]
IREG welcomes new members from Tunisia, Poland and Germany
Three new members: University of Tunis El Manar (Tunisia), Rzeszow University of Technology (Poland) and “e-kvadrat” (Germany) were unanimously admitted as members of the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence by the General Assembly that met in Warsaw, Poland on 24 June afterward the IREG 2022 Conference.
Leiden Ranking: Eastern Europe leads for Gender and UK for Open Access
Leiden Ranking is produced by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University. It provides a variety of bibliometric indicators and is highly regarded by the international research community. In recent years it has added measures of gender equity and open access. The indicators are derived from the Web of Science database, including […]
Nature Index: Latest Edition Shows Western Research Decline
The latest edition of Nature Index appears to show that the production of high-quality scientific research in North America and Europe has declined alarmingly. The ranking is based on a list of the most highly regarded journals in four broad fields, Chemistry, Life Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Physical Sciences. It covers only a […]
IREG 2022 Conference met in Warsaw
After the two years of the COVID pandemic IREG 2022 Conference met again in person. Some 150 HE experts from all over the world debated the “Academic Rankings at the Crossroads” in the Old Library of the University of Warsaw, 23-24 June. The key presentations were made by: Micheal Murphy, head of the European University […]
Waldemar Siwinski elected President of IREG Observatory
The General Assembly of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence meeting in Warsaw, Poland on 24 June, elected Waldemar Siwinski (Poland) its president and members of the Executive Committee for the term in office 2022-2026. Gero Federkeil, head of Multirank (Germany), became the vice president. The Executive Committee also include Ying Chen co-creator of the Shanghai Ranking (China); Bob […]
“Top-200 Ukraine 2022” ranking published in the face of the war
To stress the importance of the European integration processes for higher education in Ukraine, the weights of international performance indicators (results in world rankings) are set higher than the weights of national indicators. Only data available on the open web sources published by the independent national and international organizations was used. The methodology of the […]
QS World Rankings: No Surprises This Year
The latest edition of the QS Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings has just been published. There have been few dramatic changes in the overall rankings, which is evidence for their general reliability. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) continues to hold first place. Cambridge is now second and has overtaken Oxford. Universities in France, China and […]