By Ruth A. Pagell* (12 Oct 2021) I had intended to write a short update on recent ARWU and THE releases. In looking for something interesting to write about, since these rankings are stable, I began to drill down into individual metrics, a mistake for someone who likes to ask herself questions such as…
By Ruth A. Pagell* THE’s new Arab University ranking adds new metrics to its regional methodology QS adds SDG metrics to its World rankings Clarivate issues a research report on Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey (MENAT) THE ARAB University Rankings (3 Sept 2021) In 2017 and 2018, THE published lists of top Arab…
By Ruth A. Pagell* Q: What is the highest ranked Asian university for Mulltidisciplinary and how old is it? Q: What is the top university in Oceania for multidisciplinary research? (Appendix A) Q: What Asian university has the most alumni working in a Forbes 2000 company? (Appendix B) Q: In 2020, what university had…
By Ruth A. Pagell* What does it mean for China to have a declining share in Nature Index? How do rankings for publications and proportion of publications differ in CWTS Leiden? Is there anything new in THE Asia? Are there changes in international student scores in QS World 2022? What is new with Preprints?…
PART ONE: The need for new metrics and an introduction to World University Research Rankings (WURR) with its new metric PART TWO: Overviews of IREG approved rankings not covered by Ruth’s Rankings: URAP, CWUR, UniRank, and rankings with changes, emphasizing unique metrics, outcomes, and comparisons (coming soon) (31 May 2021) Everyone loves rankings, whether…
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…