Scopus data will
underpin the World University Rankings, as well as THE’s other rankings such as
the 100 Under 50, Asia University, and the BRICS & Emerging Economies
rankings. Under the agreement with THE, Elsevier will also run their annual
global academic reputation survey though THE will have ownership of the results
and data behind the ranking indicators.
Trevor Barratt,
Managing Director of THE, remarks, “Research publication data for
the rankings will in the future be drawn from Elsevier’s Scopus database. The
new data source will allow us to analyze a deeper range of research activity
from a wider range of institutions than at present, including those
institutions from emerging economies that account for a growing portion of the
world’s research output and which have shown a great hunger for THE’s trusted global performance metrics.”
This is a great
endorsement of the work done over the last 10 years – improving the
quality of the Scopus database, the breadth of global coverage and developing
the market-leading research metrics and benchmarking tool, SciVal.
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