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Global Innovation Index Showcases Innovation Clusters

24 November 2025

The Global Innovations Index (GII) is published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation. It is derived from 80 indicators measuring innovation inputs and outputs. The current edition covers 139 countries and 100 innovation clusters.

Highly Cited Researchers List Announced

19 November 2025

Clarivate have published the latest edition of the highly cited researchers list. This is regarded as comprising the elite of the world’s researchers and is an indicator in the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).

QS Asian Rankings: Mainland Chinese Universities Slip

14 November 2025

QS Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) have released the latest edition of their Asian university rankings. The biggest change since last year is the rise of the University of Hong Kong to first place, overtaking Peking University.

Latest Ranking of Graduate Employability

03 November 2025

Emerging is a French consulting company specializing in graduate employability. It has published global university employability rankings since 2010. These were published in the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times, and more recently Times Higher Education.

CWTS Leiden Moves to Open Ranking

31 October 2025

The CWTS Leiden Ranking is published by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University, Netherlands. It provides tables of publications by universities including data on collaboration, open access, and gender equity. All metrics are based on objective and publicly accessible data. The latest edition was released on October 29th, 2025.

QS Publishes Arab Region Rankings

19 October 2025

QS Quacquarelli Symonds have just published the latest edition of their Arab Region University Rankings. King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, remains at the top, followed by Qatar University.

New Edition of the THE World Rankings

09 October 2025

The latest edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings has just been announced. There are few dramatic changes this year. Oxford remains in first place, as it has for the last decade, while the rise of leading Mainland Chinese universities appears to have levelled off. 

Invitation to IREG 2025 Conference in Abu Dhabi

02 October 2025

Come to IREG 2025 Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 10-11 December 2025. Listen to university leaders and top international experts on university rankings such as Ben Sowter (UK), Alex Usher (Canada), M'hamed El Aisati (Netherlands), Ghassan Aouad (UAE), Waldemar Siwinski (Poland), Isidro F. Aguillo (Spain) discuss how rankings can contribute to university excellence and the sustainability goals.

Publication of Indian National Rankings 

20 September 2025

The National Institutional Ranking Framework was established by the Indian government in 2015, partly in response to dissatisfaction with the major global rankings.

PitchBook Identifies Entrepreneurial Universities

14 September 2025

PitchBook is a financial data and research platform, based in Seattle, London, and Singapore, with offices in New York and San Francisco. It is now owned by Morningstar Inc and publishes an annual list of universities whose alumni have raised venture capital.

IDP Report on University Rankings

12 September 2025

IDP Education Limited is an Australian-based international company that specializes in student placement, language testing,  and advisory services. Its web pages frequently refer to the global rankings published by Shanghai Ranking, QS, Times Higher Education (THE), and US News, in addition to the Complete University Guide and the Guardian University Guide. They have recently published a report on the use of rankings by international students.

IREG 2025 Conference

10 September 2025

Authors and analysts of global and regional university rankings such as Ben Sowter (UK), Alex Usher (Canada), M'hamed El Aisati (Netherlands), Ghassan Aouad (UAE), Waldemar Siwinski (Poland), Minchun Zh (China), Isidro F. Aguillo (Sain), top HE eperts and university leaders will discuss in Abu Dhabi rankings contribution to university excellence and sustainability.

Field Rankings from University Ranking by Academic Performance 

06 September 2025

The latest edition of University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) shows an increasingly bipolar research world with China dominating engineering and the hard sciences while the USA and the UK still lead in the humanities and the social sciences.

AD Scientific Index Publishes Inclusive Rankings

29 August 2025

The AD Scientific Index is a “real-time academic performance analysis platform” that publishes rankings based on Google Scholar profiles, which are more inclusive than Scopus or Web of Science.

Shanghai Rankings Show Dramatic Shift from the West

18 August 2025

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), usually known as the Shanghai Rankings, are the oldest global university rankings. They are included among the three or four most well-known rankings and have a straightforward and stable methodology.

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