(5 April 2018) Many of our rankings appear once a year. QS and THE slice and dice their datasets to create subsets of their annual rankings. Are following these releases worth our time? QS adds two subjects: Library & Information Management and Classics & Ancient History Asia has more ranked universities in Materials Science than…
By Ruth A. Pagell* Which country has the most authors? Which research organization has the most authors in the world? Which university in Asia has the most authors? Which author at Nanjing Tech has the most citations in the field of Physics and Astronomy? (1) (17 March 2018) Two themes run through this article: the processes…
(7 February 2018) The 2018 cycle begins. THE released its 2018 Asia rankings 7 February 2018. Covering 359 universities from 25 countries across Asia, this is an increase of 101 universities from 2017. Table 1 shows the top 15 universities in 2018 with their 2017 rankings and 2018 world rankings. [pdf-embedder url=”https://librarylearningspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/TABLE-1THEAsia2018-r-Clive-edit-1-pdf.pdf”] The names are…
By Ruth A. Pagell* How many owners has the Institute for Scientific Information had? What percent of Times Higher Education revenue comes from rankings? Which ranker solicits advertising on its home page? (22 January 2018) Faculty and administrators in Hong Kong and Singapore asked me “How do the rankers make money from rankings?” Despite my…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (4 December 2017) I am beginning to think of global university rankings as invasive species. Two years ago, a talk I gave in Singapore attracted an uninterested audience of 25. On this trip, over 200 librarians, faculty, administrators and students physically attended the talks. Students wanted to know how to use…
(18 November 2017) The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library, recently sponsored Ruth Pagell’s trip to Asia to speak to librarians, faculty, students and administrators about university rankings. Her talk to HKUST on 9 November, World University Rankings: How to be Number One together with the powerpoint presentation, are streamed here: http://stream.ust.hk/service/watch.php?stream=lib/o/991012552668403412.mp4 After Hong Kong, Ruth…
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) ranks higher than National University of Singapore (NUS) in the QS rankings and NUS ranks higher than NTU in THE rankings NTU ranks higher than HKUST in the QS rankings and HKUST ranks higher than NTU in THE rankings (Table 30.1 Big Three) By Ruth A. Pagell* (Watch Ruth Pagell present University Rankings…
National University of Singapore, NUS, and Nanyang Technological University, NTU, also in Singapore, top the U.S. News Global Asian rankings for the first time University of Tokyo continues its run as top in Asia in National Taiwan University (NTU) Ranking Tsinghua is number one in Engineering and Computer Science in U.S. News and NTU NTU…
Oxford and Cambridge are ranked 1 and 2 in the world Ten East Asian universities are in the top 100, led by National University of Singapore and Peking University (7 September 2017) Since the release of the 2016-2017 rankings in September 2016, THE has been busy rolling out various adaptations, using the same metrics but…
“…regardless of our views about their merit or otherwise, rankings matter” (Hazelkorn 2017, pg. 1) “Universities…are obsessed with gaining status in one or more national or global rankings…They should quit now”. (Altbach &Hazelkorn, 2017) By Ruth A. Pagell* (1 September 2017) Our first columns in 2014 introduced bibliometrics. We then presented the various rankings, their…
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