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Leiden Ranking is produced by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University. It provides a variety of bibliometric indicators and is highly regarded by the international research community.
Leiden Ranking is produced by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University. It provides a variety of bibliometric indicators and is highly regarded by the international research community.
The General Assembly of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence meeting in Warsaw, Poland on 24 June, elected Waldemar Siwinski (Poland) its president and members of the Executive Committee for the term in office 2022-2026.
After the two years of the COVID pandemic IREG 2022 Conference met again in person. Some 150 HE experts from all over the world debated the “Academic Rankings at the Crossroads” in the Old Library of the University of Warsaw, 23-24 June.
The latest edition of Nature Index appears to show that the production of high-quality scientific research in North America and Europe has declined alarmingly.
To stress the importance of the European integration processes for higher education in Ukraine, the weights of international performance indicators (results in world rankings) are set higher than the weights of national indicators.
The latest edition of the QS Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings has just been published. There have been few dramatic changes in the overall rankings, which is evidence for their general reliability.
Over the last few years, there have been complaints that the leading US universities are failing to prepare their graduates for the realities of the 21st century workplace.
Time Higher Education (THE) have published the latest edition of their Impact Rankings. These assess progress towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by the United Nations.
Eight Russian universities, members of IREG Observatory signed the statement of the Russian Union of Rectors in support of the war against Ukraine.
QS have just published the latest edition of their subject rankings, which are heavily biased towards research. The indicators, the weighting of which according to subject and field, are academic reputation, employer reputation, citations, H-index, and international research network.
The SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) are published by the SCImago Lab, now part of a Spanish consulting company.
In recent years there has been much discussion about ranking universities according to their contribution to teaching and learning rather than their research prowess. Times Higher Education (THE) has produced three rankings that it describes as teaching-focused for the USA, Europe and Japan.
The latest edition of the THE Japan University Rankings has just been published. One significant feature is that some international universities have fared badly because of falling scores for international students, finance per student, or courses taught in a language other than Japanese. These include Akita International University, International Christian University, and Kyoto University of Foreign Studies.
The methodology is based on 16 performance indicators grouped under five pillars:
- Resources, including finance per student, faculty-student ratio, publications, research grants, and mock university exam scores
- Engagement, based on surveys of students and high school advisors
- Outcomes, based on academic and employer reputation surveys
- Environment, including international staff, students, and exchange programmes, and courses taught in foreign languages.
At the top of these rankings, changes have been limited. The top five universities overall this year are:
- Tohoku University, Miyagi
- University of Tokyo
- Osaka University
- Tokyo Institute of technology
- Kyoto University.
The top universities in each of the four pillars are:
Resources; University of Tokyo
Engagement; Akita International university
Outcomes; Kyoto university
Environment; Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Oita.
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A controversy has erupted following the publication of a report by Michael Thaddeus, a mathematics Professor at Columbia University, in New York City, who has argued that the University has submitted misleading data to the US News ranking of the country’s best universities.
U-Multirank is committed to the values of peaceful international exchange and cooperation, and strongly condemns the war against Ukraine.