By Ruth A. Pagell* (16 May 2021) Last year, RR 44 Part 2 did an in-depth analysis of rankings of U.S. universities. It is too soon to revisit all the USA rankings to evaluate the impact of the pandemic on US higher education since the number of four year degree granting institutions has been gradually…
By Ruth A. Pagell* Who is number one in the world in 2021? What Asian university has the highest overall ranking? What country has the highest ranked institution in Gender Equality? What institution in SDG 7, Affordable and Clean Energy, has the nicest name? (29 April 2021) I am currently on a hunt to…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (7 Apr 2021) It is worth checking the updated rankings for changes in methodology or in top universities. Major changes at the top rarely happen as is the case with the updates from QS subject rankings, THE’s Emerging Economies, the student-focused Japanese Universities, and Nature Index Asia Pacific. Look away…
By Ruth A. Pagell* What’s in a name? (Appendix A) Who is the most cited researcher in Citation Topic Bibliometrics? (Appendix B) What is the search strategy used in Scopus for SDG 5, Gender Quality? (Appendix C) (10 Mar 2021) I am fortunate to have access to many of the bibliometric products from Clarivate…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (8 Feb 2021) I presented existing journal quality metrics in Ruth’s Rankings 46 Part 1. JCR is adding “Early Access” documents to its 2021 calculations (Quaderi, McVeigh). Before writing about this and other updates from Clarivate Analytics and Scopus, I realized I needed to know more about the make-up of the…
By Ruth A. Pagell* Fast Facts: NTU’s top ten East Asian universities rank 17 to 59 in the world. In 2007 they ranked 13 to 479 U.S. News Global has 593 European schools and 589 from Asia BONUS: In QS Asia, five Malaysian universities are in the top 50 (6 Dec 2020) “Higher…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (10 Nov 2020) Ruth’s Rankings regularly revisits journal metrics, covering legitimate and illegitimate sources and metrics. This will be a two-part article. Part one focuses on Journal Citation Reports™ Journal Impact Factor™ and other Clarivate Analytics products with journal metrics. JIF™ is a trademark of Clarivate Analytics and cannot be legally used by…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (3 0ct 2020) Nature has taken the data from its 2020 rankings, using 2019 share data (fractional counting), to produce a ranking of the top 200 Science Cities. Nature Index does not include output in social sciences or arts and humanities, it uses the one metric, and is size-dependent. What is…
By Ruth A. Pagell* Who is THE’s number one in the world again? Who was number one in 2004? How many Chinese universities are in THE’s top 20? Is it better to have a low rank than not to be ranked at all? Would you recommend using THE’s Small University Rankings? (25 September 2020)…
(2 Sept 2020) Does the world need another university ranking service? The World University Research Rankings, a new university ranking system developed in Singapore, will be launched online, 4pm September 3, 2020. Ruth’s Rankings will be taking a look and letting us know its value and how it compares to the other ranking systems.