IREG Ranking News
An article by Irfan Ayhan of Sabanci University, Istambul, Turkye, ‘Research Trends in University Rankings: A Scoping Review of the Top 100 Most Cited Articles in Academic Journals from 2017 to 2021’, has been published in the European Review.
The University of Zurich has announced that it will no longer submit data to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings and their various spin-offs.
The SCImago Institutions Rankings are published by a company that is a spin-off from the SCImago Research Group, an organization supported by the Spanish National Research Council, the University of Granada, the Charles III University of Madrid, and other institutions.
The Islamic World Science and Technology Monitoring and Citation Institute (ISC) was established in Azerbaijan in 2008 and is now based in Iran. It has published the Islamic World University Rankings since 2014 and world rankings since 2018.
The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education was first published in 1970 and is currently produced by the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Kongratbay Sharipov rector of Tashkent State University of Economics has been appointed Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Innovations of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The CWTS (Centre for Science and Technology Studies) at Leiden University has announced a significant step forward in its quest for transparency and honesty in the publication of global university rankings.
Times Higher Education (THE) has published the latest edition of its reputation rankings. This is based on a survey of researchers who were published in journals indexed in the Scopus database over a five-year period.
The latest edition of the Ranking Web of Universities, usually known as Webometrics, has been released. It is now in its twentieth year of publication and combines web activity and research measures.
An article in University World News by Kafil Yamin reports that Indonesia is actively seeking to enhance the status and international presence of its universities.
The Research.com ranking Is derived from data in the Microsoft Academic Graph at the end of 2022. It measures the H index of researchers affiliated with global universities.
Nature Index is a ranking based on primary research articles in 145 highly reputed journals in the medical and natural sciences.
The first edition of the Arab Ranking of Universities has been published. This ranking is produced by the Arab Ranking of Universities Council, which is sponsored by the General Secretariat of the Arab League, the Arab League of Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation, and the Association of Arab Universities.
University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) is published by the URAP Research Laboratory at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. It is a research-based ranking that uses data from InCites and now ranks 3000 universities.
The public has the right to an independent, outside opinion on higher education. Rankings are a source of such independent information. While rankings popularity has been steadily growing, some universities find it difficult to accept the idea of outside assessment. This is one of the reasons why IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence published a revised IREG Guidelines for Stakeholders of Academic Rankings.