Scimago rankings: Universities Lagging behind for Research and Innovation
The Scimago Institutions Rankings are produced by the Scimago Lab and analyse data relevant to scientific and online reputation. In addition to conventional metrics related to research they also measure innovation and societal influence. There are separate rankings for universities and other institutions. The overall 2020 rankings, as in previous years, are led by the […]
IREG Executive Committee online meeting
The Executive Committee of IREG Observatory met online 30 June. Taking into account the circumstances created by the coronavirus pandemic, the Executive Committee decided to cancel IREG 2020 Conference in Beijing, and instead to organize, in cooperation with the Beijing University of Technology an online “Beijing Ranking Seminar” next October. Other online seminars are also […]
Japan Leads in Supercomputer Ranking
Top 500 is a ranking of the world’s most powerful computer systems and is published twice a year. The current authors are Erich Strohmeier and Horst Simon of NERSC/ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Martin Meuer of Prometeus GmBH. In previous years the upper levels of the […]
Shanghai Subject Rankings Show Global Research Excellence
ShanghaiRanking have just produced their latest rankings of universities by subject. These cover 54 subjects in Engineering and the Natural, Life, Medical and Natural Sciences. The results show that China is emerging as dominant in engineering research while the United States continue to lead in medicine and the life sciences. There are no rankings for […]
Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2020
The Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2020 has been released by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. ShanghaiRanking has published the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) by academic subjects since 2009. The present release contains rankings of universities in 54 subjects across Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. In total, more than 4000 universities […]
European University Association Report on Higher Education Indicators
The European University Association (EUA) is an organisation of over 800 European universities that seeks to represent higher education with regard to EU policies on education, research and innovation. Last month the association published a report, Exploring higher education indicators by Tia Loukkola, Helene Peterbauer and Anna Gover, that looks at the indicators relating to […]
India Rejects Global Rankings
India has never done well in any kind of international education comparison, but Indian universities have done especially badly in global university rankings. There are some plausible reasons for this. The country’s secondary school system appears very ineffective, higher education has been subject to stifling government regulation including restrictions on the admission of international students […]
U-Multirank Shows Strengths of European Universities
The latest edition of U-Multirank has been published. This is not a conventional ranking but rather a tool that allows prospective students and other stakeholders to select metrics relating to research, teaching and learning, knowledge transfer, regional engagement, and international orientation and to make comparisons or construct their own rankings. U-Multirank began in 2010/11 with […]
QS World Rankings: Malaysia Rising UK Falling
Among the highlights of the latest QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World University Rankings are a further decline of British universities while those in Malaysia continue to make remarkable progress. The methodology is heavily biased to surveys, with a weighting of 40% going to a survey of academic opinion and 10% to a survey of employers. The […]
CWUR World Rankings Measure Quality of Education and Faculty
The Center for World University Rankings is now based in the United Arab Emirates, having migrated from Saudi Arabia. It has a distinctive methodology based on public information rather than surveys or data submitted by institutions. There are four indicators: Quality of education measured by the number of alumni who have won major academic awards […]