Times Higher Education Rankings 2021
Lachyn Italmazova Regional Director, THE THE’s Mission
To help universities understand their market position against their mission. To help students find and access the university best suited to their abilities and aspirations. In doing so, to help higher education deliver transformational teaching, research and innovation. THE WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2021
2004-2009 2010-2014 2015/16 2016/17 2018 2019 2020 2021
800 981 1,103 1,258 1,396 1,527 2021 Rankings 1993 1527 Institutions Institutions from submitted 93 countries/ data territories ranked 13.6m 86m Research Citations publications included analysed 22,000 Reputation voters CRITERIA FOR INCLUSION
Publications:
Over previous 5 years, an institution is required to:
• Publish 1,000 or more scholarly articles (Elsevier’s Scopus database) • Publish 150 or more per year
Be universal:
• Not focused on just one discipline
Level of study:
• Active at undergraduate and postgraduate level METHODOLOGY THE DATA FOR THE WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKING
Performance data Reputation data Bibliometric data Universities (via THE) Academics (via THE) Academics (via Elsevier) DATA FROM UNIVERSITIES
ARTS AND HUMANITIES SOCIAL SCIENCES BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS CLINICAL, PRE-CLINICAL AND LAW EDUCATION • Art, Performing Arts & • Communication & Media • Business & Management HEALTH • Law • Education Design (inc. Creative Arts) Studies • Accounting & Finance • Medicine & Dentistry • Languages, Literature & • Politics & International • Economics & Econometrics • Other Health (inc. Nursing Linguistics Studies (inc. Development & Healthcare Services) • History, Philosophy & Studies) Theology (inc. Classics) • Sociology (inc. cultural • Architecture studies, population & • Archaeology anthropology) • Geography
LIFE SCIENCES PHYSICAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY • Agriculture & Forestry • Mathematics & Statistics TECHNOLOGY • Computer Science • Psychology (inc. food) • Physics & Astronomy • General Engineering • Biological Sciences • Chemistry • Electrical and Electronic (inc. biochemistry) • Geology, Environmental, Engineering • Veterinary Science Earth & Marine Sciences • Mechanical and Aerospace (inc zoology) Engineering • Sports Science • Civil Engineering (inc. Construction & Materials Science) • Chemical Engineering ACADEMIC REPUTATION SURVEY ACADEMIC REPUTATION SURVEY ACADEMIC REPUTATION SURVEY Scopus Is a source-neutral abstract and citation database curated by independent subject matter experts.
Identify and analyze which 86 million journals to read/submit to Items Track and assess a researcher’s impact
24,000+ 1.7 billion cited references Decide what, where and with Serial titles dating back to 1970 whom to collaborate
Track impact of research and 210,000+ monitor global research trends Books 5,000+ Find the current research; what has been Publishers ~70,000 16 million published in a research area Affiliation profiles Author profiles Determine how to differentiate research topics, find ideas CALCULATING CITATIONS
• We want to calculate the average number of citations that a piece of research from an institution receives
We normalise by • Year • Type of publication Papers • Subject Reviews Conferences • Within each cell we compare a paper to the average Books Book chapters • We average these scores across the university
ACADEMIC REPUTATION SURVEY
Doctorates to to Doctorates academic staff academic to Doctorates degrees bachelor’s awarded reputation Teaching academic to Income staff student to Staff ratio academic to Papers staff to income Research staff academic reputation Research Weighted Field Citations research Industry academic to income staff to International staff domestic to International student domestic with Publications author international % 6 2.25 15 2.25 4.5 6 6 18 30 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5
Relative Staff Student Staff Staff Staff Staff Papers Staff Staff Student body body
Norm Z Z Exp Z Z Z Z Exp Z Z Z Z Z
Subject Yes Yes Yes Yes* Yes weight
PPP Yes Yes Yes ACCESS TO DATA AND INSIGHTS
Supporting universities with performance analysis and benchmarking
Email [email protected] to request data BENCHMARKING ANALYSIS SUBJECT ANALYSIS
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University F How do we assess impact? Importance of being a sustainable citizen and awareness of the SDGs Highest priority SDGs amongst students The role of universities in achieving the SDGs Actions taken by students to assess a university’s sustainability credentials THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
1.7% of GWP 25,000 Universities FOUR ASPECTS OF THEORY OF CHANGE
Research Stewardship
Teaching Outreach HOW TO BE EQUITABLE?
• Ease of participation
• Minimise SDGs in submission • 17 plus any three others
• Think carefully about metrics
• Listen to input from universities, organisations, and individuals RESEARCH EVIDENCE EVIDENCE OF ACTIVITIES EVIDENCE OF ACTIVITIES
Answer yes/no, provide comment and link to evidence.
Does your university as a body participate in international collaboration on gathering or measuring data for the SDGs? EVALUATING EVIDENCE
How do we calculate the score for evidence?
International collaboration on gathering or measuring data for the SDGs?:
Statement
1 point Evidence Evidence is public Maximum possible 3pts 1 point 1 point
Evidence is evaluated for relevance: 1 point specific 0.5 point general 0pt point not relevant THE OVERALL RANKING
• An overall score is created from SDG 17 and the three strongest SDGs for a university • Universities could submit to as many SDGs as they wished • Bibliometrics will always represent the same proportion of overall score, regardless of SDGs chosen
17 + A + B + C
22 + 26 + 26 + 26 = 100 Results from Romanian universities PARTICIPATION FOR 2021: 1240 UNIVERSITIES GLOBALLY 2021 EUROPE: 378 UNIVERSITIES 2021
Submits more than average
Submits less than average Romania: 10 universities World: 1117 Rank University name Country
OVERALL 301–400 University of Bucharest Romania RANKING 401–600 Babeş-Bolyai University Romania 401–600 Bucharest University of Economic Studies Romania Top ranked in the world Top ranked in Romania 401–600 Polytechnic University of Bucharest Romania 601–800 Transilvania University of Brașov Romania
601–800 Dunarea de Jos University of Galati Romania
George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and 601–800 Technology of Targu Mures Romania
601–800 Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Romania
801–1000 USAMV Cluj-Napoca Romania
801–1000 Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism Romania University of Manchester University of Bucharest UK Romanian Universities Romania: 10 universities Rank University name Country
World: 966 =44 University of Bucharest Romania 101–200 Babeş-Bolyai University Romania Top ranked in Romania 101–200 Polytechnic University of Bucharest Romania George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu 301–400 Mures Romania 401–600 Transilvania University of Brașov Romania 401–600 Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism Romania 601–800 Bucharest University of Economic Studies Romania
601–800 USAMV Cluj-Napoca Romania 601–800 Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Romania 601–800 Dunarea de Jos University of Galati Romania Top ranked in the world Romania: 5 universities World: 871 Romanian Universities
Top ranked in the Romania Rank University name Country
=80 Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Romania
301–400 George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures Romania
401–600 Dunarea de Jos University of Galati Romania
401–600 University of Bucharest Romania
801+ Polytechnic University of Bucharest Romania
Top ranked in the world Romania: 7 universities World: 591 Romanian Universities
Top ranked in the Romania Rank University Name Country
96 USAMV Cluj-Napoca Romania 101–200 Transilvania University of Brașov Romania 201–300 Bucharest University of Economic Studies Romania 301–400 University of Bucharest Romania 301–400 Dunarea de Jos University of Galati Romania 401+ Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Romania 401+ Polytechnic University of Bucharest Romania
Top ranked in the world In summary:
• Creating a Road Map: establish institution specific KPIs and evaluation practices.
• Further initial steps of becoming research intensive; all academics involved in research, not just teaching, creating a research culture.
• Understand the importance of international co-authorship.
• Reputation strategy development, a product of the high-quality outputs and activities.
• Recognition via increased international recognition, citations and rankings performance. THANK YOU.
Lachyn Italmazova [email protected]