By Ruth A Pagell* (29 Jul 2024) Ruth’s Rankings started in the middle of the current history of world university rankings. This is the story of how I became a player in the rankings game and the concerns I have about the future. I have tried to be a reporter rather than a critic,…
By Ruth A Pagell* (27 Mar 2024) I spent two months away from Ruth’s Rankings collaborating with a friend on a book chapter on open access that ended up being about open everything. During that time, CWTS Leiden started the new year with a new version of its rankings, using the new hot bibliometric…
By Ruth A Pagell* (December 18, 2023) Question: What is the best sustainability ranking? Question: Who is the most “sustainable” university I looked forward to the second edition of QS’ Sustainability rankings. It was well-timed, during the meeting of COPE-28. I was so anxious to learn as much as I could before…
By Ruth A Pagell * (27 Nov 2023) Question: Do regional rankings address some of the concerns about the current world rankings? It is fashionable to criticize the rankings (Brink). My last set of articles, Ruth’s Ranking 56 parts 1 and 2 and RR 57, focused on changes in metrics and weightings from our…
By Ruth A Pagell* (30 Oct 2023) Updated rankings are coming out faster than I can read my emails. This article reviews THE’s 2024 World rankings with new metrics. Ruth’s Rankings’ target audience is Asia/Pac. The news coming out of Asia consistently reports that China is closing the gap with the US. It is…
By Ruth A Pagell* (27 Sep 2023) Ruth’s Ranking 56 Part 1 raised concerns over existing rankings and showed how THE Impact was addressing some of them. Part 2 continues the discussion. QS 2024 World Rankings changed metrics and weightings, causing controversy over changes in countries’ performance. Nature added a new subject, Health Sciences and…
By Ruth A Pagell* (7/27/2023) 20 years ago Shanghai Rankings issued its first global ranking of five hundred universities, followed a year later by a joint venture from THE and QS, of 200 universities. (Praphamontripong). The number of rankings, countries, institutions, and the scope of the indicators has grown along with criticism of the…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (18 May 2023) It is almost a year since I put gender aside, leaving the piece on gender identity to be completed later. During this time while I was reviewing new books, evaluating QS’ new sustainability rankings, and immersing myself in Academic Freedom, there was a shift from SDGs to…
(14 Apr 2023) Ruth Pagell and her colleague Barbie Keiser decided to build on their interest in SDGs to present an in-depth report that highlights ways the scholarly community (publishers, educational institutions, international and regional organizations, and libraries) participates in sustainable development activities The chapter covers: Researching SDGs, including data and their sources Publishers’ and…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (19 Mar 2023) In order to pay my way into the Internet Librarian conference that I described in RR 54, I agreed to write an article about the conference for the Online Searcher section of the Computers In Libraries magazine. Until 2023, Online Searcher had been a stand-alone publication itself, with…