IREG Ranking News
The US News has announced that it will introduce significant changes to its influential law school rankings. It Is likely that the changes will influence other rankings by the publisher and possibly other ranking agencies.
The GreenMetric rankings, published by Universitas Indonesia, were the first attempt to evaluate universities according to their commitment to and support for environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
IREG position paper on Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment
IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence welcomes the broad debate on research assessment expressed in the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment (CoARA) https://coara.eu/ published under the auspices of the European Union.
The latest edition of University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) show that French and Chinese universities continue to improve dramatically.
Round University Rankings (RUR), whose legal address is now in Tblisi, Georgia, have published the latest edition of their subject rankings.
Times Higher Education (THE) has just announced the latest edition of the Global Employability University Ranking and Survey (GEURS), conducted by Emerging, the French based Human Resources consulting firm.
Clarivate Analytics just published the latest list of Highly Cited Researchers. Although much criticised, the list is very influential and is an indicator in the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
“More Than Our Rank” is an initiative from the Research Evaluation Group of the International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS).
PitchBook is a financial data and software company with offices in London, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle. It publishes lists of universities whose alumni have started venture capital-backed companies.
US News has announced the latest edition of the Best Global Universities. As expected, the first five places are held by Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and Oxford. However, the rankings also show that East Asian and Middle Eastern universities are making advances in key disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, and Computer Science.
Over the last few years, the number of regional rankings has increased as it has become apparent that the better-known global rankings are not always appropriate for institutions in many parts of the world, especially in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Consequently, some ranking agencies have started to produce regional rankings
Times Higher Education (THE) has released the results of their latest World University Rankings. It looks as though this will be the last ranking under the methodology that has been used since 2010, and next year’s may look rather different.
A team of researchers from the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany led by Dr. Jelena Brankovic published a paper “Spreading the Gospel – Legitimating university rankings as boundary work”. The paper analysis in detail the activities and position of IREG Observatory on the international higher education landscape.
The AD Scientific Index is published by Murat Alper and Cihan Doger of the University of Health Sciences, Ankara. It is a ranking system based on Google Scholar h-index scores.
CoinDesk, the digital currency news site, has published the third edition of its ranking of universities with the greatest impact on blockchain.