List of Ruth’s Rankings and News Updates

Here’s the complete list of Ruth’s Rankings and News Updates on Librarylearningspace.com:

1. Introduction: Unwinding the Web of International Research Rankings
2. A Brief History of Rankings and Higher Education Policy
3. Bibliometrics: What We Count and How We Count
4. The Big Two: Thomson Reuters and Scopus
5. Comparing Times Higher Education (THE) and QS Rankings
6. Scholarly Rankings from the Asian Perspective
7. Asian Institutions Grow in Nature
8. Something for Everyone
9. Expanding the Measurement of Science: From Citations to Web Visibility to Tweets
10. Do-It-Yourself Rankings with InCites
11. U S News & World Report Goes Global
12. U-Multirank: Is it for “U”?
13. A Look Back Before We Move Forward
14. SciVal – Elsevier’s research intelligence – Mastering your metrics
15. Analyzing 2015-2016 Updated Rankings and Introducing New Metrics
16. The much maligned Journal Impact Factor
17. Wikipedia and Google Scholar as Sources for University Rankings – Influence and popularity and open bibliometrics
18. Rankings from Down Under – Australia and New Zealand
19. Rankings from Down Under Part 2: Drilling Down to Australian and New Zealand Subject Categories
20. World Class Universities and the New Flagship University: Reaching for the Rankings or Remodeling for Relevance
21. Flagship Universities in Asia: From Bibliometrics to Econometrics and Social Indicators
22. Indian University Rankings – The Good the Bad and the Inconsistent
23. Are Global Higher Education Rankings Flawed or Misunderstood?  A Personal Critique
24. Malaysia Higher Education – “Soaring Upward” or Not?
25. THE Young University Rankings 2017 – Generational rankings and tips for success
26. March Madness –The rankings of U.S universities and their sports
27. Reputation, Rankings and Reality: Times Higher Education rolls out 2017 Reputation Rankings
28. Japanese Universities:  Is the sun setting on Japanese higher education?
29. From Bibliometrics to Geopolitics:  An Overview of Global Rankings and the Geopolitics of Higher Education edited by Ellen Hazelkorn
30. Hong Kong and Singapore: Is Success Sustainable?
31. Road Trip to Hong Kong and Singapore – Opening new routes for collaboration between librarians and their stakeholders
32. The Business of Rankings – Show me the money
33. Authors:  Part 1 – People and processes
34. Authors: Part 2 – Who are you?
35. Come together:  May updates lead to an investigation of Collaboration
36. Innovation, Automation, and Technology Part 1:  From Scholarly Articles to Patents;     Innovation, Automation, and Technology Part 2: Innovative Companies and Countries
37. How Important are Journal Quality Metrics in the Era of Predatory Journals? Part 1: Journal Citation Metrics; Part 2: How Important are Journal Quality Metrics in the Era of Potential/ possible/ probable predatory publishers and publications?
38. Coming Attractions: The UN Sustainable Development Goals and Times Higher Education Innovation and Impact Rankings Demystified
39. Business School Rankings: Monkey Business for an Asia/Pac audience
40. Deconstructing QS Subjects and Surveys 
41. THE’s University Impact Rankings and Sustainable Development Goals: Are these the most impactful universities in the world?
42. Predatory practices revisited – misunderstandings and positive actions
43. ASEAN – a special analysis of ASEAN nations
44. What’s the best university for an international student? Part 1: Metrics from the student’s perspective; Part 2: Using local metrics with emphasis on U.S. and Chinese rankings
45. Insights into TOP Factor: Journal impact reimagined
46. Part 1: Insights into Journal Evaluation Tools in the Age of Open Science; Part 2: Scholarly publications’ landscape in the age of COVID-19 including early access, preprints, and retractions
47. Part 1: Hunting for New University Rankings Metrics; Part 2: The Quest Continues for New Ranking Metrics for Universities
48. How Green is my University? Part 1: Ranking green universities: new metrics and new leaders; Part 2: Country and Company Environmental Rankings add new sets of Indicators to our Vocabulary
49. A comprehensive overview of rankings, higher education policy, and geopolitics: Research Handbook on University Rankings: Theory, Methodology, Influence and Impact
50. The business of rankings updated
51. Part 1: Gender rankings: New metrics, new names at the top; Part 2: Gender rankings: Roles and rankings of women’s universities
52. East Asian universities in print and in rankings, and Special Report:  Russia and Rankings:  Statements from members of the rankings supply chain
53. Beyond SDGs: QS releases its world sustainability rankings and Addendum – The expanding role of universities: examples and recommended alternative rankings
54. Academic freedom and its relationship to university rankings and Addendum: Update to Academic Freedom and QS Sustainability Rankings
55.  Gender identity, publishing, and university rankings
56. Part 1: New metrics for old rankings: THE Impact Rankings with enhanced Sustainability questions Part 2: New metrics for old ranking, covering QS, Nature, and CWTS Leiden
57. The ranking world and its regions, highlighting Sub-Saharan Africa
58. QS’s rankings and its regions: Examples of customization
59. CWTS Leiden introduces OpenAlex to its rankings: Is this the start of a new era of rankings’ bibliometrics?
60. Ruth’s Rankings 60 – A personal retrospective on a decade of Ruth’s Rankings and RR 60 Retrospective Addendum – methodologies, indicators, rankings, and countries

 

Ruth’s Rankings News Updates 2015 onwards

9-2015. QS Asia puts NUS First

11-2015. Web of Science adds Emerging Sources Citations Index

2-2016.  Ancient university rankings

4-2016:  U-Multirank version 3 and New Subject Rankings

5-2016. Updated Rankings and Government Initiatives [Leiden, THE Reputation, India]

6-2016. QS Regional Rankings, ARWU Subject Rankings and new releases and rankings from Thomson Reuters

6-2016. Extra News Flash! – Times Higher Education Distributes its 2016 Asian Rankings raising concerns in Hong Kong

8–2016. Three Asian Universities Join ARWU’s Top100

9-2016. QS and Times Higher Education roll out their 2016-2017 Rankings

10-2016. NTU Ranking: Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities

10-2016. Asian Universities fall due to changes in new U.S. New’ Best Global University Rankings methodology

3-2017. Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Rankings 2017

4-2017. Times Higher Education Japan.: New ranking – Same universities at the top

4-2017.  Fourth edition of U-Multirank: Still not for me

5-2017.  CWTS Leiden, New Rankings, New Ranking Principles

6-2017. 2018 Comes Early to QS World University Rankings

7-2017. New subject rankings from ARWU and Asia-Pacific Rankings from Times Higher Education

8-2017. ARWU 2017: The more the merrier.

9-2017. THE 2018 World University Rankings

10-2017. End of the 2017 cycle [U.S. News Global and National Taiwan University Performance Rankings of Scientific Papers]

11-2017. How to be number one – a video of a presentation for Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2-2018-1.  THE Asia: Reshuffling the same deck

5-2018-2.  QS Subject rankings and THE’s new releases-Japanese Universities and the Arab League

6-2018-3.  Top News from THE and QS updates.

8-2018-4.  ARWU Inclusion Increases

9-2018-5. Latest World Rankings from National Taiwan University and Times Higher Education

10-2018-6. The Last of the 2018 Ranking Releases

11-2018-7. Researchers, Subjects, and Regional Rankings

3-2019-1. THE Asia/Pac update and other Asia rankings

5-2019-2. Updates of THE Asia, U21 National University Systems and the new THE Asia Awards

5-2019-3. CWTS Leiden 2019 adds new metrics for Open Access and Gender

6-2019-4. QS 2020 offers little to write about

 

NAME CHANGE  to NEWS UPDATES

8-2019.  New rankings and updates to old rankings

9-2019. Bogged down in new releases from NTU, THE and others

11-2019. What do the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University and Harvard University have in Common?

1-2020.  Researchers’, subjects’, and students’:  Ruth’s Rankings 2019 leftovers

4-2020.  THE releases the 2020 Impact Rankings based on Sustainable Development Goals: has anything changed?

8-2020. Drowning in rankings from Nature, CWTS,THE and QS: Updates for the 2^nd quarter of 2020

8 -2020.  ARWU World and Subject Rankings

8-2020.  Times Higher Education Releases its 2021 rankings:  Growing Like Weeds

9-2020.  A Quick Take on Nature’s Science Cities and Their Populations

12-2020.Is this the last of the 2020 Usual Rankings Update or the last of our Usual Metrics?

3-2021. Exciting new features from Clarivate and Elsevier and updates to University Rankings: Ruth’s Rankings News Update Winter 2021

4-2021. What is New in this Month’s Updates? Not much! Ruth’s Rankings News Update for March 

5-2021. Quick take on QS World University Rankings USA 2021

6-2021. The end of the 2020 release cycle and the beginning of 2021-2022

8-2021. Covering the Arab region and SDGs

10-2021. New releases of ARWU and THE University Rankings featuring selected metrics: Updates through mid-October 2021 

12-2021. Ruth’s Ranking News Update December 2021 & January 2022

2-2022. Ruth’s Rankings Update February 2022: Follow-ups and looking forward

4-2022. Ruth’s Rankings News Update April 2022: Rankings are as good or bad as the people using them

12-2023 Ruth’s Rankings News Update December 2023: QS Sustainability Rankings, Take Two