IREG Ranking News
A World View article in Nature by Elizabeth Gadd, Research Policy Manager at Loughborough University, argues that the current global university rankings are flawed and in need of serious rethinking.
IREG 2020 Conference have shown that young women students and researchers are particularly adversely affected by COVID-19.
Clarivate Analytics have just published the latest edition of their lists of highly cited researchers. The lists now include 6167 researchers in 21 fields, of whom about 2500 are classified as cross-field researchers, and covers articles published over the eleven years between 2009 and 2019.
IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence welcomes the three new members: the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland, the Independent Agency for Recognition and Quality Assurance in Education (ARQA), Astana, Kazakhstan, and the Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University (PMU), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Times Higher Education (THE) has published a Graduate Employability Ranking commissioned by Emerging, the French human resources consulting company, and conducted by Trendence, the independent research agency.
Shanghai Ranking has announced the latest ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments. Institutions included are sport universities or sport related units that have published a certain number of Web of Science papers.
Libya has been in a state of turmoil since 2011 and that has had a dire effect on the country’s universities and research capacity.
Elsevier, the leading academic publisher, has just published a report, University rankings: A report for research leaders, on the global ranking scene.
Will university rankings adjust to our uncertain times? – under this title University World News published a report on IREG 2020 Beijing Conference held in virtual format 20 and 21 October.
Reputation is a significant factor in the dominance of modern English-speaking universities and it is an indicator in the Times Higher Education (THE) world rankings, the QS world rankings, the US News Best Global Universities and the Round University Rankings. It also features in several national and specialist rankings.
At a congenial ceremony during the recent IREG 2020 Beijing Conference, Luis Costa, IREG President announced that Isidro Aguillo had been awarded the IREG Honorary Member Award.
The US News Best Global Universities is usually considered one of the four big global rankings, the others being the Shanghai Rankings and the THE and QS world rankings. It is a research only ranking that uses bibliometric and survey data.
In spite its virtual form, because of COVID-19, the annual IREG conference held on 20 and 21 October turned out to be a success.
The National Taiwan University Ranking, also known as the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, has been published since 2007.
The proliferation of international university rankings has created a need for some sort of critical assessment and comparison.