RUR Subject Rankings: Elite Universities in Decline
Round University Rankings (RUR) have announced the new edition of their subject rankings. The rankings are currently published in Tbilisi, Georgia. The broad subject rankings use the same methodology as the world rankings, while the narrow subject rankings are based entirely on papers, citations, and patents. The broad rankings consist of four groups of indicators […]
AD Scientific Index Ranks World’s Top Scientists
The AD scientific index is produced by Murat Alper of the Sağlık Bilimleri University Istanbul and Cihan Döğer of the Ankara Provincial Directorate of Health. It is based on Google Scholar data and provides a variety of rankings of individuals and institutions, including research productivity, h-index, and citations. The rankings are updated every two to […]
Taiwan Rankings Latest Edition
The NTU Rankings, also known as the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, started in 2007, and since 2012 have been published by the National Taiwan University. This is a research-only ranking that assesses citations and publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Science Citation Index. It combines indicators over […]
PitchBook Showcases Entrepreneurial Universities
PitchBook is a financial data and software company with offices in the UK and the USA. It produces annual rankings of universities based on the number of alumni who have raised venture capital over the last ten years. The United States still dominates the global rankings. The top twenty universities for undergraduate founders include seventeen […]
The Global University Visibility Ranking
The Global University Visibility Rankings are published by American Caldwell, a higher education market research group. They use a number of indicators of global branding: news mention, public interest, social media, website visitors, web references, online footprint, and video views. The second edition, which was recently published, is dominated by the United States, which […]
Latest Shanghai Ranking Shows New World-Class Universities
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is published by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy and is the oldest of the current global university rankings. There are six indicators: Nobel and Fields awards to alumni, awards to faculty, highly cited researchers, publications in journals indexed in the Science Citation Index Enhanced and the Social Science Citation Index, […]
URAP Subject Rankings Announced
University Ranking by Academic Performance is published by the Informatics Institute of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. It is a research-based ranking that uses publicly available data from InCites. Universities in Asia and Eastern Europe that are dissatisfied with the better-known rankings are now beginning to pay it some attention. There are currently six […]
IREG 2024 Conference AI influence on HE and Rankings
IREG 2024 Conference, Bucharest, 7-8 November 2024 No longer a science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI) has invaded higher education on many fronts. Teaching has always been regarded a human domain, yet generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT seem ready to replace instructors. The thread is so real that to protect teaching jobs the state of […]
Latest Webometrics Ranking
The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is published by the Cybermetrics Lab of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid. It is by far the most inclusive of the global rankings and now ranks over 30,000 universities according to research output and web impact. Currently, there are three indicators: Visibility (50%); number of […]
Leiden Ranking
The CWTS Leiden Ranking is published by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University. It provides data on academic publications by universities and, in recent years, has added tables on international and industrial collaboration, open access, and gender equity. The publication data is derived from core journals in the Web of Science […]