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College and university rankings order higher education institutions based on various criteria, with factors differing depending on the specific ranking system. These rankings can be conducted at the national or international level, assessing institutions within a single country, within a specific geographical region, or worldwide.
In a study assessing an increasingly-diversified array of publishers and their service to the academic community, Janice S. Lewis concluded that college and university librarians ranked university presses higher and commercial publishers lower than did members of the American Political Science Association.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.108. [2] The journal has a five-year impact factor of 3.769 and is ranked 72/264 of journals in the Education & Educational Research Category. The 2019 CiteScore is 4.1, which ranks in the top 10% of over 1300 journals in the Education category.
The impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia. Impact factors began to be calculated yearly starting from 1975 for journals listed in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). ISI was acquired by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in 1992, [4] and became known as Thomson ISI.
A study published in 2021 compared the Impact Factor, Eigenfactor Score, SCImago Journal & Country Rank and the Source Normalized Impact per Paper, in journals related to Pharmacy, Toxicology and Biochemistry. It discovered there was "a moderate to high and significant correlation" between them. [25]
The SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) [1] since 2009 has published its international ranking of worldwide research institutions, the SIR World Report. [2] The SIR World Report is the work of the SCImago Research Group, [3] a Spain-based research organization consist of members from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), University of Granada, Charles III University of Madrid ...
The QS World University Rankings is a portfolio of comparative college and university rankings compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds, a higher education analytics firm.Its first and earliest edition was published in collaboration with Times Higher Education (THE) magazine as Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankings, inaugurated in 2004 to provide an independent source of comparative ...
[16] A survey on higher education published by The Economist in 2005 commented ARWU as "the most widely used annual ranking of the world's research universities." [ 17 ] In 2010, The Chronicle of Higher Education called ARWU "the best-known and most influential global ranking of universities" [ 18 ] and Philip G. Altbach named ARWU's ...