By Ruth A. Pagell* (26 December 2014) I began researching the intersection of bibliometrics and university research rankings in preparation for a talk I presented at CONCERT, CONsortium on Core Electronic Resources in Taiwan in 2008. At that time, there were only 74 articles in all of Web of Science (WOS) about bibliometrics or citations…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (26 November 2014) Which university is #1 in the world in 2014/2015? Massachusetts Institute of Technology? California Institute of Technology? Harvard University? Cambridge University? Princeton? In Asia? University of Tokyo? National University of Singapore? University of Hong Kong? 1 Read on and find out who the top universities are and why…
By Ruth A. Pagell1 (13 October 2014) Ruth’s Rankings 3 introduced the metrics used in rankings. In this article, we look at the information companies who provide the underlying data. As of October 2014, UlrichsWeb Global Serials Directory lists over 145,000 scholarly academic journals of which about 50,000 are not in English. Scopus estimates that there…
By Ruth A. Pagell1 (4 September 2014) Looking back at the Asian university rankings in Table 1 in Ruth’s Rankings 1, each top 10 list is somewhat different. All of these rankings include some quantitative research metrics, ranging from a high of 100% for the ranking to a low of less than 20%. In order to…
By Ruth A. Pagell1 (8 August 2014) We ended the first article by presenting a series of different rankings which we did not explain. Before we drill down into them, it is important to view the different rankings in the context of the past scholarly rankings environment and the current higher education policy environment. In the…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (5 July 2014) I find rankings fascinating. I wrote my first article about rankings over 25 years ago when I was trying to sort out different listings of “biggest” U.S. companies and moved on to researching biggest companies world-wide. Who was biggest varied among different sources based on different criteria. Two…
(19 May 2014) The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has been ousted from the top of the QS Asia rankings – the first time in the ranking’s history that a university from the city-state has failed to claim first place, writes David Jobbins. It falls to fifth place, while the University of Hong…
(13 May 2014) A new global university ranking, set up with EUR2 million in funding from the European Union, is launched today. U-Multirank, which assesses the performance of more than 850 higher education institutions worldwide, breaks new ground by producing multi-dimensional listings rating universities on a much wider range of factors than existing international rankings.…
(27 March 2014) Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has rocketed up the global top 100 in the Nature Publishing Index. NTU recorded a 250 per cent increase in its research output and soared 144 places, to be ranked 73rd internationally. NTU is also ranked 12th in the Asia-Pacific region, climbing 23 spots from 35th last year.…
(6 March 2014) Universities from just two countries – the US and the UK – comprise the top 10 of the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2014. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley complete the top six, with…
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