IREG Ranking News
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.
The UI GreenMetric University Ranking is produced by Universitas Indonesia and assesses university contributions to sustainability. It began in 2010 with 95 universities and now covers 1185 institutions in 84 countries.
QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) have just published the second edition of their World University Rankings: Sustainability, which attempt to measure the ability of universities to deal with issues relating to the environment, society, and governance.
7-8 December in Almaty, Kazakhstan experts on accreditation and rankings of engineering programs from countries of Central Asia met with their European counterparts at a conference “Central Asia – European Union: promising areas of cooperation in improving the specialist training quality”.
The latest edition of GEURS, or Global Employability University Ranking and Survey, has just been published by Emerging, a Paris-based consulting firm. It is based on a survey of international employers in 21 countries conducted by Trendence, an independent polling company and is published by Times Higher Education (THE).
University World News published comments on the European Ranking of Engineering Programs – EngiRank – by British journalist Nic Mitchell.
AppliedHE of Singapore have announced their rankings of private and public universities in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations). The rankings include reporting and non-reporting institutions.
Clarivate have released the 2023 edition of their list of highly cited researchers, comprising 6,849 individuals, representing the top one per cent of the world’s scientists by citation.
The European Ranking of Engineering Programs or EngiRank – was inaugurated in Brussel 17th November in presence of universities and European engineering organizations. The top place went to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) followed by Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and KU Leuven (Belgium).
The Moscow International Ranking (MosIUR), or the Three University Missions Ranking is published annually by a private non-profit organisation, the Association of Rating Makers.