Initial Comments on the US News Global Rankings

It was a bit of a surprise when US News & World Report (USNWR) announced that they were going global but perhaps it  shouldn't have ...

The university rankings business gets bigger and bigger

US News is going global. There are three different Arab/ MENA rankings on the way. Now, QS is getting ready for further growth. This is from...

Shanghai without the Awards

Updated. The link to the site is here . The Center for World-Class Universities (CWU) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University has produced an inte...

Another Global Ranking

Just when you thought you could stop reading about rankings. For several years the US News & World Report (USNWR), publishers of America...

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings

Publisher Times Higher Education Scope Global. Data provided for 400 universities. Over 800 ranked. Top Ten Place University 1 California In...

How to win citations and rise in the rankings

A large part of the academic world has either been congratulating itself on performing well in the latest Times Higher Education   ( THE) wo...

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa: Are they dancing in the streets?

There is a lot of coverage of that huge pocket of excellence in Italy at ROARS:Return on Academic Research . Still trying to make sense of t...

The university with more research influence than.....

With apologies to the Sydney Morning Herald which had a headline about Caltech. I don't know if the people of Valparaiso are aware that...

Which universities have the greatest research influence?

Times Higher Education   (THE) claims that its Citations:Research Influence indicator, prepared by Thomson Reuters (TR), is the flagship of ...