Database of World’s Top Scientists Updated
PLOS Biology has published an article by John Ioannidis, Kevin Boyack and Jeroen Baas describing the updating of the standardised citation databases of scientists across all scientific fields. These are based on citations from Scopus and assess the citation impact over scientists’ careers and during the year 2019. The databases include researchers in the top […]
Nature article Calls for Rethinking Rankings
A World View article in Nature by Elizabeth Gadd, Research Policy Manager at Loughborough University, argues that the current global university rankings are flawed and in need of serious rethinking. The article is based on her work with the International Network of Research Management Systems (INORMS), which has started a Research Evaluation Working Group to […]
Highly Cited Researchers List Confirms Asian Ascent, American Decline
Clarivate Analytics have just published the latest edition of their lists of highly cited researchers. The lists now include 6167 researchers in 21 fields, of whom about 2500 are classified as cross-field researchers, and covers articles published over the eleven years between 2009 and 2019. The data is derived from the Essential Science Indicators and […]
Summit for young women in technology and IT
IREG 2020 Conference have shown that young women students and researchers are particularly adversely affected by COVID-19. To help avert this trend Perspektywy Education Foundation, a member of IREG, organizes an online Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit (8-9 December 2020) addressed specifically to young women studying or doing research in the field of technology and […]
Employability Ranking Identifies Rising Stars in Asia, Europe and the Middle East
Times Higher Education (THE) has published a Graduate Employability Ranking commissioned by Emerging, the French human resources consulting company, and conducted by Trendence, the independent research agency. Over 9,000 international and operational managers in 22 countries and 19 industries were surveyed. There appear to be some gaps in the survey coverage. There are no respondents […]
Three new members joined the IREG Observatory family
IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence welcomes the three new members: the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland, the Independent Agency for Recognition and Quality Assurance in Education (ARQA), Astana, Kazakhstan, and the Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University (PMU), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. We wish our new members success, and their students, faculty, and […]
Shanghai Sports Ranking: Strong Showing by Scandinavia and Australia
Shanghai Ranking has announced the latest ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments. Institutions included are sport universities or sport related units that have published a certain number of Web of Science papers. The indicators are: Papers cited in the Web of Science Citations to Papers Citations per Paper Papers published in the top 25% […]
Libya Introduces Ranking System
Libya has been in a state of turmoil since 2011 and that has had a dire effect on the country’s universities and research capacity. Libyan universities are absent from the well-known rankings although they do have a presence in the Webometrics rankings where the top performer is the University of Benghazi, just inside the top […]
University World News on IREG 2020 Conference
Will university rankings adjust to our uncertain times? – under this title University World News published a report on IREG 2020 Beijing Conference held in virtual format 20 and 21 October. The Conference had been followed in 55 countries on all continents. You may still see the IREG 2020 conference’s session at: https://ireg-observatory.org/en/events/ireg-2020-beijing-coference-virtual/
Elsevier Report on University Rankings
Elsevier, the leading academic publisher, has just published a report, University rankings: A report for research leaders, on the global ranking scene. The report acknowledges the existence of 19 rankings included in he IREG Inventory of International Rankings and provides a helpful survey and history of internationals rankings since 2003. Rankings have become very influential […]