Rankings workshop How Scopus and SciVal data are used for ...

[Pages:63]Rankings workshop ? How Scopus and SciVal data are used for global university rankings

2nd North American SciVal User Group Meeting

McGill University, October 11th 2019

Guillaume Warnan

Senior Customer Consultant, Research Intelligence, Elsevier

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Overview

WHY are International Rankings important? WHAT are the International Rankings Organizations?

HOW are SciVal & Scopus involved? (Brief recap overview)

WHICH rankings? Deep dive:

1. QS 2. THE Rankings

EXAMPLE institution data for THE: McGill University

How can data be reproduced from SciVal/ Scopus? Scopus Institutional Profile Wizard

HOW can citation performance/ranking be improved?

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The importance of Rankings

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Rankings are cited by many stakeholders as being important

Students & Parents University Management

Policy Makers

Source: University selection by students (IDP Research)

85% of students find university ranking as

important in their selection of institute to study

33% of students find university ranking as the

most important factor (number 1 factor, followed by 21% employer recognition, etc.)

The goal of the program is that by 2020 at least 5 Russian universities will be in the top 100 universities as denoted by QS World University ranking.

David Willets (former UK Universities & Science minister):

"We broadly accept the criteria used by the THE, which is why our policies are focused on the same areas."

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Students primarily use a small number of powerhouse rankings systems, although there are significant variations by nationality

Source: Hobsons, INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 2015, Value and the Modern International Student

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Global University Rankings

'03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16

1

ARWU/Shanghai

2

Webometrics

3

QS

4

4icu

5

NTU/HEEACT

6

Leiden

7

URAP

8

SCImago

RRRRRRR

9

THE

10 Trendence/Emerging

11

RUR

RRR

12

U-Multirank

13

UI GreenMetric

E

E

E

E

E

14

CWUR

15 Youth Incorporated

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nature INDEX

17

RankPro

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US News

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Reuters

I

I

Academic performance with league table Academic performance without league table Broad based league table "Multidimensional" ranking Employability based league table Web presence league table

R Retroactive E Environmental Focus I Innovation Focus

Source: Illuminate Consulting Group

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Other prestigious university rankings where Scopus is used as bibliometric data source:

Best Chinese University Ranking

National University Ranking

Poland

National Institutional Ranking Framework

India

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Elsevier's position on university rankings and metrics in general

All rankings have their strengths and potential disadvantages and we do not rank the rankings!

? We believe in working on fundamentals with a "basket of indicators", always as a complement to peer opinion

? Informed decisions are better decisions ? Metrics should complement, not replace human judgment ? Well-selected metrics drive positive behaviors ? Metrics does not only mean bibliometrics ? Metrics can help monitor and eliminate biases ? Assessments are costly, but availability of new tools help bring

cost down ? Data sources to cover humanities are becoming more

complete

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