Madrid, September 29th, 2011. Scimago Lab just released Scimago Institutions Rankings World Report 2011, the third edition of its Ranking of Worldwide Research Institutions. This is the world broadest coverage ranking showing the research outcomes of 3.042 institutions worldwide. Through a rigorous process of institution identification and disambiguation, the report gathers all those universities and research-focused institution around the world which published at least 100 scientific documents in scholarly journals in 2009, and then analyzes their scientific output during the period 2005-09 in the database Scopus, from the giant Elsevier. The extent of scientific output that has been analyzed overtakes 80% of the world in such period.
This year's edition introduces two new indicators aiming at providing a broader insight of the research performance of analyzed institutions. The Specialization Index indicates the extent of thematic specialization of institutions by analyzing the scientific fields where they do research and the number of scientific papers they publish in each of those fields. The second indicator, the Excellence Rate indicates the proportion of an institution's scientific output in the set formed by the papers with the highest impact in their respective fields of science. Below the list of the six indicators included together with brief descriptions:
The indicators showed on the report are:
In addition, the regular features on SIR World Reports include grouping institutions within countries, world regions and institutional sectors composed of Higher Education, Government, Health-related Institutions, Companies and Others.
SIR World Report 2010 is openly available for download at: http://www.scimagoir.com
Scimago Lab is devoted to Science Evaluation by means of analysis, visualization and evaluation of the information contained in large scientific databases. We participate in the development of several analysis tools of scientific information, including the journal evaluation environment SCImago Journal &Country Rank (http://www.scimagojr.com) which includes the SJR indicator used by Scopus to evaluate journal's scientific prestige. And the SCImago Institutions Rankings (http://www.scimagoir.com) which analyses the research performance of worldwide universities and research-focused institutions.
The SCImago Institutions Rankings Project is a research evaluation environment for worldwide universities and research-focused institutions, it is developed by SCImago Research Group over Elsevier's database Scopus arising from a collaboration agreement.
Website: http://www.scimagoir.com
Borja González Pereira
SCImago Communication Manager
Email: borja.gonzalez@scimago.es
Scimago Lab has just released the 2nd. Edition of the Iberoamerican Ranking SIR, this release covers, for the first time, all the HEIs in the Iberoamerican region (Latin-America plus Spain and Portugal). Specifically 1,369 institutions are included; all those which published at least one scientific communication during the period of analysis 2005-2009 as collected by worldwide scientific database leader Scopus . This edition of the report is presented in three languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese .
The report, composed as a multi-valued ranking table , shows four key indicators revealing the research performance of institutions by providing an evaluation framework to research activity. The first one; the Scientific Output (O), measured as the number of scientific documents published by each HEI, establishes the ranking order. The table also shows the International Collaboration Index (IC), Normalized Impact (NI) and the ratio of Publication in Best Journals (Q1) which respectively indicate the internationalization degree, scientific impact and HEIs' ability to publish their research in the most prestigious journals.
This edition includes a set of new features that enhance the report data quantity and quality. It includes the Variation Rate with respect to the value for the period 2004-2008 for each indicator. It also classifies HEIs according to their scientific impact into three groups:
As it has been pointed in the former release of the Iberoamerican Ranking SIR 2011, this report series is intended as an evaluation and benchmarking tool of the research activity carried out at Iberoamerican HEIs. It was devised to reach a wide range of users, including:
The Project SCImago Institutions Rankings SIR is a research evaluation environment for universities and research-devoted institutions worldwide. The environment is being developed by Scimago over Scopus' scientific database bibliographic records as a result of a collaboration agreement between both companies.
SCImago Lab is a company working on the development of scientific information analysis and evaluation tools such as the journal evaluation website SCImago Journal & Country Rank which includes the SJR indicator and this project SCImago Institutions Rankings. Scimago Lab takes also care of disseminating Scimago's developments.
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Scimago Lab
Email: borja.gonzalez@scimago.es
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Madrid, October 13th, 2010 -- The SCImago Research Group released today the SIR World Report 2010, the second edition of its Ranking of Worldwide Research Institutions. This is the world broadest coverage ranking showing the research outcomes for 2,833 institutions.
This year's edition introduces new analytic features including Research Excellence Labels, and Regional and National Ranks. Every institution has been labeled according to the scientific impact its output has over the scientific community into 3 categories: Green, Yellow and Red. Also, although the ranking tables continue to be sorted by world output rank, the current release shows regional and national ranks for all the institutions.
Fully focused on the research dimension of institutions, SIR World Report 2010 combines four global indicators revealing performance, institutions' ability to generate scientific knowledge and to achieve international visibility. To fit into a wide range of evaluation needs for different organization profiles, the report groups together institutions by countries and world regions as well as Institutional Sectors including Universities, Government Agencies, Research Hospitals, Companies and Others.
The indicators showed on the report are:
"In this new edition we focused our efforts on reaching high accuracy in the cleaning and refinement of raw data, especially those related to authors' affiliations" said Felix de Moya, Main Researcher at SCImago Research Group. "The goal is to guarantee that the exposed scores capture institutions' research outcomes properly"
Through the abovementioned process of data cleaning and institutions' identification and disambiguation, SIR World Report 2010 collects those institutions which published at least 100 papers in scholarly journals in 2008 and analyzes their scientific output during the period 2004-08 included in the largest scientific literature database, Scopus from Elsevier. The scientific literature volume analyzed covers over 80% of the world scientific literature for the term 04-08.
"The current report constitutes a top-notch and robust evaluation resource to carry out comparative analyses of the research structures of worldwide Research Institutions" said Felix de Moya.
SIR World Report 2010 is openly available for download at: http://www.scimagoir.com
SCImago is a research group devoted to Science Evaluation by means of analysis, visualization and evaluation of the information contained in large scientific databases. SCImago Research Group has members at Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and Universities of Granada, Alcalá de Henares and Carlos III in Madrid, Extremadura in Spain and Porto (Portugal), National University of La Plata (Argentina) and Catholic University of Valparaiso (Chile).
SCImago Research Group participates in the development of several scientific information analysis tools, being the most notable the journal evaluation environment SCImago Journal &Country Rank (http://www.scimagojr.com) which includes the SJR indicator used by Scopus to evaluate journal's scientific prestige. And the SCImago Institutions Rankings (http://www.scimagoir.com) to analyse the research performance of worldwide universities and research-focused institutions.
The SCImago Institutions Rankings Project is a research evaluation environment for worldwide universities and research-focused institutions, it is developed by SCImago Research Group over Elsevier's database Scopus arising from a collaboration agreement.
Website: http://www.scimagoir.com
Borja Gonzalez Pereira
SCImago Communication Manager
Email: borja.gonzalez@scimago.es
Madrid, may 24, 2010 2010 -- As a part of its strategy for developing research evaluation tools, SCImago Research Group has released the Ibero-American Ranking SIR 2010. The report includes the 607 Ibero-American High Education Institutions that published at least one scientific paper during the year 2008, according to Elsevier's prestigious scientific database Scopus.
The ranking includes scientific indicators that show ordered information about research activity for the term 2003-2008. The scientific output of universities is analysed alongside with universities' ability to produce research in cooperation with foreign countries and scientific impact. The indicator included are:
The Ibero-American Ranking SIR 2010 aims at becoming an evaluation tool to represent, in a schematic but meaningful way, the quantity and quality of research carried out at Ibero-American Universities. Its target audience is formed by Policy Makers responsible for science, innovation and techonology programs and planning, and Research Managers at institutions responsible for allocating research resources as a benchmarking tool.
The SCImago Institutions Rankins project is an research evaluation environment for worldwide universities and research-focused institutions, it is developed by SCImago Research Group over Elsevier's database Scopus arising from a collaboration agreement.
Website: http://www.scimagoir.com
SCImago is a research group devoted to Science Evaluation by means of analysis, visualization and evaluation of the information contained in large scientific databases. SCImago Research Group has members at Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and Universities of Granada, Alcalá de Henares and Carlos III in Madrid, Extremadura in Spain and Porto (Portugal), National University of La Plata (Argentina) and Catholic University of Valparaiso (Chile).
SCImago Research Group participates in the development of several scientific information analysis tools, being the most notable the journal evaluation environment SCImago Journal &Country Rank (http://www.scimagojr.com) which includes the SJR indicator used by Scopus to evaluate journal's scientific prestige. And the SCImago Institutions Rankings (http://www.scimagoir.com) to analyse the research performance of worldwide universities and research-focused institutions.
Borja González Pereira, SCImago Communication Manager
Email: borja.gonzalez@scimago.es
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