IREG Ranking News
The 2022 edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings has been published. There has been a lot of comment about the improvement in the ranks of Oxford and Cambridge and some other British universities.
Dr. Edmund Adam of University of Toronto, Canada is a winner in the IREG Competition for the Best PhD Theses on Academic Ranking 2021.
Leiden Ranking is published by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University. It does not produce overall scores or ranks although public interest tends to focus on specific metrics such as total publications or the percent of publications in the most frequently cited 10% of journals.
Shanghai Ranking has released its annual subject rankings. There are 58 rankings in Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences.
Nature Index is a ranking of research of the highest quality. Its database consists of 82 leading international journals in chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, life sciences and physical sciences.
Guide2Research is a Philippines-based Computer Science research portal. It collects information on top conferences, journals, scientists and institutions.
Paul Howarth was appointed a new chief executive of Times Higher Education. He joined THE from Law Business Research, a provider of business information, legal analysis tools and networking events for law firms globally, where he was CEO for four years.
Times Higher Education (THE) has just published the second edition of their China Subject Rankings. These are based on the classification of subjects by the Chinese Ministry of Education.
The Nab’a Al-Hayat Foundation of Iraq has just announced the publication of its national university rankings. These provide data going back to 2008, when there is data for only two universities, the University of Baghdad and the University of Mosul.
The publication of three papers in the last few days has drawn attention to the issue of conflict of interest in the ranking of global universities.
The latest edition of the rankings published by the Center for World University Rankings has just been published. These rankings are unusual in that they attempt to measure faculty and graduate quality.
Times Higher Education (THE) has published its latest Impact Rankings. These measure the contributions of universities to meeting the 17 sustainable development goals announced by the United Nations.
In 2019 the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) in South Africa evaluated the research output of local universities. An article in the Mail & Guardian by Tawana Kupe has analysed the report.
The Academic Freedom Index is published by the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi).
The IREG family has gain four new members: Al Maarefa University (UM), Riyadh – Dariyah, Saudi Arabia, Medical University of Warsaw (WUM), Warsaw, Poland, Kazakhstan Association for Engineering Education (KazSEE), Almaty, Kazakhstan, and American University of the Middle East (AUM), Egaila, Kuwait.