THE New Methodology Leads to Reshuffling in Ranking

Last year Times Higher Education (THE) ended its partnership with the media and data giant Thomson Reuters (TR) and began to process and analyse information from the Scopus database and to conduct its own academic reputation survey. In addition, THE have modified the citations indication by excluding several hundred papers with over a thousand authors, most of them in physics, and halved the impact of the regional modification that awarded a bonus to universities in low performing countries. More...