By Ruth A. Pagell* What roles do publicly traded companies have in the scholarly supply chain and how can that affect university decisions? How are the companies supplying the data for the rankings, increasing their revenue and influencing and impacting the rankings? Where are the libraries? Should universities be rated as companies? ABSTRACT: The…
(20 February 2019) Times Higher Education has once again released the Asia-Pacific University Ranking to reflect the region’s growing strength in the higher education sector. THE’s Asia-Pacific University Ranking 2019 analysed universities across East Asia, South-east Asia and Oceania. The overall ranking features more than 300 universities from 13 different nations. The ranking uses the same performance…
By Ruth A. Pagell* Check out the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their history See if your institution is on a partner listing Watch THE’s webinar and look at their slide (11 January 2019) Times Higher Education (THE) is collecting data for a new ranking on impact and innovation that is scheduled for…
Who has the most Highly Cited (Top 1%) papers in the world? Which Asian university is in the top ten of a THE subject ranking? Which university that was top 10 in Asia last year is not even top 20 this year? (Answers in red below) (1 December 2018) This really is the last News…
Who is number one in Asia – Tsinghua University or University of Tokyo? What Asian country debuted in a world ranking this year? This News Flash reviews two world rankings. NTU-TW uses only bibliometrics, favors large universities and receives little media attention. Times Higher Education uses a variety of metrics, has a slate of rankings…