By Ruth A Pagell* (30 Jul 2024) The first part of my retrospective (RR60) is personal. It focuses on the broader picture of university rankings, their role in higher education, and the current criticisms of their shortcomings. This Addendum examines the data. It tracks the first two world rankings, the Academic Ranking of World…
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 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* Fast Facts: Nine of the 16 universities in CWTS Leiden’s Gender rankings with over 50% female authorships are Polish Fifteen of the lowest-ranked universities with under 12% female authorships are Japanese Seven of the CWTS top 25 in authorships are in the top 1,000 in THE World 2022 Only two…
By Ruth A. Pagell* What is a green university? What is the “greenest” university in the world? In Thailand? What country has the most green universities (Part 2)? (20 Nov 2021) With COP26 still in the news, this is the appropriate time to introduce ACCESS readers to the UI GreenMetric World University Rankings…
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…
(17 Apr 2021) The latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2021 carried few surprises when it was released in September. The usual contestants led the rankings. Yet among these are some institutions, operating under totalitarian regimes, that do not match our expectation of what universities are about. If one adjusts the top…
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…