QS Classifications

The THE – QS World University Rankings attract a great deal of interest and scrutiny each year, one piece of frequent feedback is the comparing “apples with oranges” observation. The simple fact is that the London School of Economics bears little resemblance to Harvard University in terms of funding, scale, location, mission, output or virtually [...]

Technical challenges with tracking publications and citations for certain institutions.

Tracking all the papers and citations data we need from the Scopus database to fuel our evaluations is quite a challenge and our process has always resulted in some discrepancies between the results we are using and the results that you can actually retrieve from Scopus at given moment. Scopus is an ever-changing database, not [...]

Domestic rankings slow to reveal their past

Examining the reality that many domestic ranking systems seem not to provide tables of old results