IREG Ranking News
The Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities (ARTU) is published by the University of New South Wales.
Universitas Indonesia has published the GreenMetric ranking since 2010. This measures the commitment of universities to the creation and maintenance of a sustainable world economy.
The European Ranking of Engineering Programs (EngiRank) is a pilot project for the ranking of engineering institutions and programs in 13 countries that joined the European Union in 2004 or after: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Malta.
The 2020-21 edition of University Ranking by Academic Performance has just been published by the URAP Research Laboratory at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara.
PLOS Biology has published an article by John Ioannidis, Kevin Boyack and Jeroen Baas describing the updating of the standardised citation databases of scientists across all scientific fields.
A World View article in Nature by Elizabeth Gadd, Research Policy Manager at Loughborough University, argues that the current global university rankings are flawed and in need of serious rethinking.
IREG 2020 Conference have shown that young women students and researchers are particularly adversely affected by COVID-19.
Clarivate Analytics have just published the latest edition of their lists of highly cited researchers. The lists now include 6167 researchers in 21 fields, of whom about 2500 are classified as cross-field researchers, and covers articles published over the eleven years between 2009 and 2019.
IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence welcomes the three new members: the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland, the Independent Agency for Recognition and Quality Assurance in Education (ARQA), Astana, Kazakhstan, and the Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University (PMU), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Times Higher Education (THE) has published a Graduate Employability Ranking commissioned by Emerging, the French human resources consulting company, and conducted by Trendence, the independent research agency.
Shanghai Ranking has announced the latest ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments. Institutions included are sport universities or sport related units that have published a certain number of Web of Science papers.
Libya has been in a state of turmoil since 2011 and that has had a dire effect on the country’s universities and research capacity.
Elsevier, the leading academic publisher, has just published a report, University rankings: A report for research leaders, on the global ranking scene.
Will university rankings adjust to our uncertain times? – under this title University World News published a report on IREG 2020 Beijing Conference held in virtual format 20 and 21 October.
Reputation is a significant factor in the dominance of modern English-speaking universities and it is an indicator in the Times Higher Education (THE) world rankings, the QS world rankings, the US News Best Global Universities and the Round University Rankings. It also features in several national and specialist rankings.