The Moscow-based RUR Rankings Agency has produced a research performance ranking of 692 universities. There are five criteria with equal weighting: 1.normalized citation impact, 2.citations per paper, 3. papers per academic and research staff, 4.international research reputation and 5. proportion of research papers with international collaborators. More...

In the 2016-2017 edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings there have been no change in the basic methodology so the rankings generally show moderate changes. Half of the weighting goes to two reputation surveys, 40% for an academic research survey and 10% for an employer survey. More...

Nature has published an index of national expenditure on research and development. Over the last ten years there has been a rapid increase in spending in Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin American while growth has been comparatively slow in Western Europe and North America. The countries where GERD (Gross Domestic Expenditure on Research and Development) has risen the most rapidly between 2003 and 2013 include China, Egypt, Turkey, Kuwait, Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand. More...

Indian higher education institutions have not been able to achieve a significant academic presence or a reputation for quality. It is true that the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) are very selective and are known for producing many capable graduates in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects. More...

Universities have become obsessed with using rankings to attract high paying students from rapidly developing countries such as India and China. They have also distorted the career paths of young academics who are encouraged to concentrate on research and treat teaching as being of little significance. More...

The Global Innovation Index is produced by Cornell University, INSEAD (European Institute of Business Administration) and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in cooperation with a number of other organisations. It is an attempt to show the factors that enable countries to innovate and the extent to which they are able to do so. More...

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), produced by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy (SRC), has long been known for its consistent and stable methodology. As a result, movement from year to year has usually been limited. More...

The latest results from the UK National Student Surveyhave shown that small and specialised institutions can often be very popular with students.  At the same time, many major universities in the elite Russell Group perform badly and some London institutions such as the London School of Economics, St George’s, University of London and the University of Westminsterare at the bottom of the ranking. More...

Times Higher Education (THE) has announced that it will be joining with the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) to produce a new ranking of more than 1,000 American colleges and universities. The ranking will, according to THE, be different from previous rankings in that it will emphasise student experience and outcomes. More...

The latest edition of the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities has been published by the Cybermetrics Lab a research group of theConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Spain. The Webometrics ranking is the most comprehensive of the current global rankings covering over 26,000 institutions. More...