(10 February 2016) Times Higher Education has released a list of top 25 universities over 400 years old in honor of the death of William Shakespeare. It uses the data from the 2015-2016 THE World University Rankings. The top two are also the two oldest and 2 and 4 in the THE World rankings, Oxford…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (5 February 2016) In early December 2015, MIT’s Technology Review provided a summary of a new paper on using data from Wikipedia to rank the world’s most INFLUENTIAL universities. A month later, ACCESS posted the abstract for another paper that introduced Wikiometrics, also using data from Wikipedia to rank universities. In…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (12 January 2016) Citation counts are core bibliometric indicators used by rankers to measure scholarly impact and administrators to measure faculty output. Questions that follow are: Is being cited enough, or do you have to be cited in a high impact source? And if a “high impact” source is desired, how…
(18 November 2015) Web of Science has announced the addition of Emerging Sources Citation Index for all subscribers of the three core citation indexes: Science, Social Science and Arts & Humanities. If “emerging sources” conjures up images of remote locations or a picture of a struggling researcher coming out of the jungle with a pile…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (26 October 2015) Mid-August to mid-October is a busy time for those of us trying to keep up with the updates in global rankings. Five of our primary sources for composite rankings posted new rankings during this time period. Waiting until mid-year gives the rankers time to incorporate 2014 data. THE…
(1 October 2015) The new Times Higher Education World University Rankings, using Elsevier data, were released today (30 September 2015.) Cal Tech remains number one in the world and National University of Singapore is first in Asia and 26th in the world, using the new world methodology. Two weeks ago, we announced the release of…
(16 September 2015) QS 2015-2016 World Rankings were released today, September 15, 2015. While I need more time to analyze all the changes, here are the new rankings for the world and Asia within the world rankings, which are not that much different for the top 10 in 2014-2015. The breaking Asia news is that…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (12 September 2015) Master Chef is coming to Asian TV in September (2105) but if cooking is not your passion then open up the guidebooks provided by Elsevier and learn how to cook up your own world standard metrics. Articles in e-Access and Online Searcher examined Thomson- Reuters’ subscription analytical platform…
By Ruth A. Pagell* BREAKING NEWS: Scimago International Rankings Research has been removed from public view, including all back files. “Ranking positions depend more on methodology than performance.” (Schmoch 2015) (12 August 2015) As it is a year since our first column now is the time to consolidate what we have learned before moving forward…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (11 June 2015) The existing rankings that we examined in articles 5 to 11 are not designed for the mass market of undergraduate students. Even THE and QS, which include a broader range of metrics, and Webometrics and Altmetrics, which focus on alternative measures, are still primarily tools for policy makers…
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