Thursday 18 June 2015

Institutional Rankings - Research Impact and Citation Analysis - LibGuides at University of Newcastle Library

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Performance Rankings of Scientific Papers for World Universities

Performance Rankings of Scientific Papers for World Universities
- annual (since 2007) produced by Higher Education Evaluation and
Accreditation Council of Taiwan. Analyses papers from the top 500
universities ranked from data included in the Thomson database Essential
Science Indicators. Lists also available by field (agriculture,
clinical medicine, engineering, life sciences, natural sciences, social
sciences), continent and country.



Methodology used in based on 8 indicators over 3 areas:


  • 20% Research Productivity (10% Number of articles in last 11 years; 10% Number of articles in the current year)
  • 30% Research Impact (10% Number of citations in the last 11 years; 10% Number of citations in the last 2 years; 10% Average number of citations in the last 11 years)
  • 50% Research Excellence
    (20% h-index in last 2 years; 15% Number of Highly Cited papers in the
    last 11 years; 15% Number of articles in the current year in high-impact
    journals).



Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universitie
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities first published in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities and the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and then updated on an annual basis.


Methodology used:


  • 10% Alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields medals
  • 20% Staff winning Nobel Prizes and Field Medals
  • 20% number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Scientific and included in their database, Essential Science Indicators
  • 20% number of articles published in the journals, Nature and Science
  • 20% number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index
  • 10% per capita academic performance with respect to the size of an institution



SIR - SCImago Institutions Rankings

SIR
SIR-SCImago Institutions Rankings produced by SCImago Research Group


Methodology used (no percentages identified):


  • O::Output - An institution's publication output reveals its scientific outcomes in terms of published documents in scholarly journals
  • IC::International Collaboration
    - IC shows an institution's output ratio that has been produced in
    collaboration with foreign institutions. The values are computed by
    analyzing the institution's output whose affiliation includes more than
    one country address over the whole period.
  • NI::Normalized Impact
    - The values, expressed in percentages, show the relationship of an
    institution's average scientific impact and the world average, which is
    1, --i.e. a score of 0.8 means the institution is cited 20% below
    average and 1.3 means the institution is cited 30% above average
  • Q1::High Quality Publications - Ratio of publications that an institution publishes in the most influential scholarly journals of the world
  • SI::Specialization Index
    - The Specialization Index indicates the extent of thematic
    concentration / dispersion of an institution’s scientific output. Values
    range between 0 to 1, indicating generalistic vs. specialized
    institutions respectively
  • ER::Excellence Rate
    - The Excellence Rate indicates which percentage of an institution’s
    scientific output is included into the set formed by the 10% of the most
    cited papers in their respective scientific fields. It is a measure of
    high quality output of research institutions.



QS World University Rankings

QS Worls University Rankings
The QS World University Rankings currently considers over 2,000 and evaluates over 700 universities in the world, ranking the top 400.


Methodology used:


  • 40% Academic Reputation from global survey
  • 10% Employer Reputation from global survey
  • 20% Citations per Faculty from Scopus
  • 20% Faculty/Student Ratio
  • 5% proportion of International Students
  • 5% proportion of International Faculty
 Discussion on methodology used for QS World University Rankings.





Times Higher Education World University Rankings

Times Rankings
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings
provides overall world top 200 rankings, banded lists of a further 200
"best of the rest" universities, top 50 institutions by subject
(engineering & technology, arts & humanities, clinical,
pre-clinical & health, life sciences, physical sciences, social
sciences), rankings by region.



Methodology uses 13 performance indicators, grouped into the following 5 areas:


  • 30% Teaching
    — the learning environment (reputational survey - teaching, PHD awards
    per academic, undergraduates admitted per academic, income per academic,
    PHD awards/bachelor awards)
  • 30% Research
    volume, income and reputation (papers per academic  and research
    student, reputational survey - research, scaled research income)
  • 30% Citations — research influence (normalised average citations per paper)
  • 2.5% Industry Income — innovation (research income from industry per academic)
  • 7.5% International Outlook
    — ratio of international to domestic staff, ratio of international to
    domestic students, proportion of international co-authored research
    papers


US News and World Report World's Best Universities

US News and World Report
US News and World Report World's Best Universities  -The U.S. News World's Best Universities rankings is based on the QS World University Rankings,
evaluated universities in countries such as the United Kingdom,
Australia, China, and more, and identified these to be the world's top
universities in 2011. 



See the QS World University Rankings entry above for more details.


Institutional Rankings - Research Impact and Citation Analysis - LibGuides at University of Newcastle Library

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