Best PhD Theses on Academic Ranking 2021
Dr. Edmund Adam of University of Toronto, Canada is a winner in the IREG Competition for the Best PhD Theses on Academic Ranking 2021. The Jury called by the Executive Committee of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence after reviewing the submitted works chose the theses “A study of the influence of global rankings […]
Leiden Ranking Promotes Responsible Metrics
Leiden Ranking is published by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University. It does not produce overall scores or ranks although public interest tends to focus on specific metrics such as total publications or the percent of publications in the most frequently cited 10% of journals. The website provides a number of […]
Shanghai Subject Rankings
Shanghai Ranking has released its annual subject rankings. There are 58 rankings in Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. The rankings are based on five metrics relevant to each academic subject: Number of papers in the first quartile for Journal Impact Factor Normalized citation impact Percentage of internationally co-authored papers Number […]
Nature Index Showcases High Quality Research
Nature Index is a ranking of research of the highest quality. Its database consists of 82 leading international journals in chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, life sciences and physical sciences. Institutions and countries are ranked according to Share, the proportional contribution to articles in the journals. Data is also provided for Count, the total number […]
Computer Science Research Rankings Announced
Guide2Research is a Philippines-based Computer Science research portal. It collects information on top conferences, journals, scientists and institutions. It was originally created by Imed Bouchikra, a Research Fellow at the Information: Signals, Images, Systems Research Group of the University of Southampton and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Souk Ahras, Algeria. The university […]
Times Higher Education has a new CEO
Paul Howarth was appointed a new chief executive of Times Higher Education. He joined THE from Law Business Research, a provider of business information, legal analysis tools and networking events for law firms globally, where he was CEO for four years. Paul Howarth has previously worked for the Financial Times, Pearson Education, the educational publisher Nelson […]
THE Announces China Subject Rankings
Times Higher Education (THE) has just published the second edition of their China Subject Rankings. These are based on the classification of subjects by the Chinese Ministry of Education. Altogether, grades are assigned for 89 subjects and there are rankings based on average grades for 12 clusters of subjects. The indicators are based on the […]
Iraq National University Rankings
The Nab’a Al-Hayat Foundation of Iraq has just announced the publication of its national university rankings. These provide data going back to 2008, when there is data for only two universities, the University of Baghdad and the University of Mosul. The methodology is based on five groups of thirteen indicators: Teaching (40%) Research (40%) International […]
Rankings and Conflicts of Interest
The publication of three papers in the last few days has drawn attention to the issue of conflict of interest in the ranking of global universities. It is well known that some of the major ranking agencies provide a variety of services such as advertising, consulting, benchmarking, reputation management, and event hosting that may raise […]
CWUR Rankings Measure Graduate and Faculty Quality
The latest edition of the rankings published by the Center for World University Rankings has just been published. These rankings are unusual in that they attempt to measure faculty and graduate quality. They provide information that other rankings ignore but only for a limited number of universities. They are now published from the United Arab […]