Considering the importance and growing number of national university rankings, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence wants to build, and make available, an "IREG inventory of national rankings". We kindly ask ranking organizations and individuals involved in ranking to answer a short on-line questionnaire:
Questionnaire on national ranking
Asking for your help, we believe that sharing the information and developing a national rankers network will help improve the quality of ranking methodologies. More...

Highly Cited Researchers 2014 represents some of world’s leading scientific minds. Over three thousand researchers earned the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of reports officially designated by Essential Science Indicators℠ as Highly Cited Papers—ranking among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication, earning them the mark of exceptional impact.

Explanation of the Method and Purpose of Thomson Reuters New List of Highly Cited Researchers 2014
Thomson Reuters has generated a new list of Highly Cited Researchers in the sciences and social sciences to update and complement a previously published list that was presented on the website ISIHighlyCited.com.
The old list, first issued in 2001, identified more than 7,000 researchers who were the most cited in one or more of 21 broad fields of the sciences and social sciences, fields similar to those used in the Essential Sciences Indicators database. This analysis considered articles and reviews published in Web of Science-indexed journals from 1981 through 1999. Approximately 250 researchers in each field were selected based on total citations to their papers published during this period. An update in 2004 took into account papers published from 1984 to 2003 and cited during the same period, and additional names were added to supplement the original list. More...

Avec 10 chercheurs dans la liste 2014 des « Highly cited researchers » sur les 78 chercheurs français référencés par Thomson ISI, l’UJF se situe en tête des universités françaises.

Source : UJF-Grenoble

A partir des publications issues de l’ensemble des revues scientifiques mondiales, la société d’édition professionnelle Thomson ISI (Institute for scientific information) détermine les citations cumulées de chaque article. Cela lui permet de déterminer les chercheurs les plus cités dans chaque discipline. Fin juin, Thomson ISI a rendu public sa nouvelle liste des chercheurs figurant dans la catégorie dite « Highly cited ».
Site internet des « Highly cited researchers » : http://highlycited.com/. Voir l'article...

Brief Description
The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) publishes the only global university ranking that measures the quality of education and training of students as well as the prestige of the faculty members and the quality of their research without relying on surveys and university data submissions.
CWUR uses eight objective and robust indicators to rank the world's top 1000 universities:

1) Quality of Education, measured by the number of a university's alumni who have won major international awards, prizes, and medals relative to the university's size [25%]
2) Alumni Employment, measured by the number of a university's alumni who currently hold CEO positions at the world's top companies relative to the university's size [25%]
3) Quality of Faculty, measured by the number of academics who have won major international awards, prizes, and medals [25%]
4) Publications, measured by the number of research papers appearing in reputable journals [5%]
5) Influence, measured by the number of research papers appearing in highly-influential journals [5%]
6) Citations, measured by the number of highly-cited research papers [5%]
7) Broad Impact, measured by the university's h-Index [5%]
8) Patents, measured by the number of international patent filings [5%].

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