IREG Ranking News
The latest Ranking of World Universities (Webometrics) which is published twice a year has been announced. The genuine summary rankings are available at figshare, and the detailed tables are available on application to the Cybermetrics Lab IPP-CSIC, Madrid.
Times Higher Education (THE) have announced a new edition of their sustainability rankings, now renamed the Sustainability Impact Ratings. The eventual plan is that THE will move from the ranks and scores provided by the current “gold standard framework”, to “presenting the congested numerical score data in banded groups”, although the date for the transition has not been decided.
University Ranking by Academic Performance is a research based global ranking that uses objective publicly available data. It has been published since 2010 by the Informatics Institute at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara.
In spite of the ongoing war, Ukraine strives to function as a country. It has announced its annual Ranking of Ukrainian Universities.
Nature Index is a database of publications in high quality journals and is regarded as the most rigorous and selective of global rankings. It now includes 177 journals and 1 conference. This year it was expanded to include Social Science and Applied Science journals.
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.