IREG Ranking News
In spite of the ongoing war, Ukraine strives to function as a country. It has announced its annual Ranking of Ukrainian Universities.
The latest QS World University Rankings have been announced. The official methodology has remained unchanged since last year although there have been some significant fluctuations.
The Round University Rankings (RUR), the latest edition of which has been released, were formerly based in Moscow but have moved to Tbilisi, Georgia. They are, however, still perceived as a Russian publication and have been subject to Western sanctions since 2022, including cutting off survey and bibliometric data from Clarivate.
The Center for World University Rankings, currently based in the UAE, has published its World University Rankings since 2012. They are highly distinctive, including metrics that attempt to use objective public data to measure teaching and learning.
An article, ‘The Pandemic of “Predatory” Rankings: Why Academic Integrity Fails the Stress Test’, posted at Preprints.org by the independent researcher Vladimir M. Moskovkin, reveals widespread fraud involving fake sites purporting to contain data from the Webometrics rankings and using fake domains ending in org, com, and online. The article is reported in University World News by Wagdy Sawahel.
MeauresHE is a new consulting firm established by two senior data experts who used to work for Times Higher Education (THE). They have already published rankings of journals and talented researchers and have now produced a ranking of national higher education systems.
The AI revolution is working its way through many aspects of research and academic life, and it will certainly have an impact on rankings, whether national, regional or global. Recently two AI assisted national rankings have appeared from Italy and Pakistan.
Shanghai Ranking has published the latest edition of the Best Chinese Universities Ranking (BCUR). The methodology is quite different from Western national and international rankings
QS Quacquarelli Symonds recently announced the publication of the latest edition of their subject rankings. There are now 55 narrow and 5 broad subject rankings.
The AD Scientific Index is a ranking of research activity produced by Murat Alper and Cihan Döğer, two Turkish medical researchers, which is derived from the Google Scholar database.
The Financial Times Business School Rankings are published annually and include Online MBA, Executive Education Custom, Masters in Finance pre-experience, Masters in Management, and MBA rankings.
“Paper Mills” and the Research Integrity Index from LeidenLeiden Madtrics, a platform of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University, has published an opinion essay by Lokman Meho, University Librarian and Professor at the American University of Beirut.
The SCImag0 Institutions Rankings are published by the SCImago Research Group, which comprises the Spanish National Research Council and several Spanish universities. They are noteworthy for including data on innovation and societal impact and for assessing over 10,000 institutions including universities, government agencies, health organisations, companies and non-profit groups.
MeasuresHE is a data platform founded by David Watkins and Billy Wong, former data analysts with Times Higher Education (THE). Its declared mission is “providing insightful data and powerful tools that empower institutions to make informed decisions, and achieve strategic goals.”
It seems that there is a trend towards away from global rankings towards regional rankings. Recently QS introduced a new ranking for Sub-Saharan Africa and now Times Higher Education (THE) has announced that it is preparing Central Eurasian rankings.