Best Universities for Artificial Intelligence

At the moment there are four agencies that publish rankings on university performance in the field of Artificial Intelligence:  QS, US News (USN), University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP),  and EduRank. The QS ranking is based on reputation and citation indicators. USN and URAP also have metrics for publications and international collaboration. EduRank is based […]

THE World Rankings: Australian and British Universities Decline

Times Higher Education (THE) have just published the latest edition of their World University Rankings (WUR). The University of Oxford remains at the top of the ranking, although there have been some significant changes further down. The rankings are based on 17 indicators grouped in 5 “pillars” as follows: Teaching (weighting 29.5%); Teaching reputation, Staff […]

Open Edition of Leiden Ranking

The Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University has announced the release of the second open edition of Leiden Ranking. This is intended to be fully transparent, unlike the Times Higher Education World University published on the same day. Data is derived from the OpenAlex database, which is based on open-access principles. There […]

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 […]