IREG Ranking News
The massive expansion of scholarly and scientific journals in recent decades has been a serious headache for researchers and administrators who have to distinguish between mediocre or poor publications and those of a high quality.
The IAAR Eurasian University Ranking – 2020 was published by the Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating (IAAR) based in formerly Nur Sultan (Astana), Kazakhstan.
uniRank is a web-based ranking that is complementary to a search engine. It is currently based on an algorithm that includes five web metrics derived from four web intelligence sources: Moz Domain Authority, which replaced Google PageRank in 2016, Alexa Global Rank, Similar Web Global Rank, Majestic Referring Domains, and Majestic Trust Flow.
As universities seek to redefine themselves or change their priorities, rankings will follow suit – writes Richard Holmes, an expert on academic rankings in the latest edition of University World News.
University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) was first published by the Informatics Institute of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, in 2009.
In recent years many countries including Germany, Russia, China and India have introduced policies to improve the quality of research and higher education by concentrating resources on a relatively small group of elite institutions.
The international projects centre ”Euroosvita” has published the fourteenth ranking of higher education institutions of Ukraine “Top-200 Ukraine 2020”.
Leiden Ranking is published by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University (the Netherlands).
The Scimago Institutions Rankings are produced by the Scimago Lab and analyse data relevant to scientific and online reputation.
The Executive Committee of IREG Observatory met online 30 June.
ShanghaiRanking have just produced their latest rankings of universities by subject. These cover 54 subjects in Engineering and the Natural, Life, Medical and Natural Sciences.
Top 500 is a ranking of the world’s most powerful computer systems and is published twice a year. The current authors are Erich Strohmeier and Horst Simon of NERSC/ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Martin Meuer of Prometeus GmBH.
The Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2020 has been released by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.
The European University Association (EUA) is an organisation of over 800 European universities that seeks to represent higher education with regard to EU policies on education, research and innovation.
India has never done well in any kind of international education comparison, but Indian universities have done especially badly in global university rankings. There are some plausible reasons for this.