I-UGR Rankings

The I-UGR Rankings project is the result of a long-standing collaboration between the EC3 Research Group and the Soft Computing Research Group. It offers 12 rankings by fields and 39 rankings by disciplines for all Spanish universities. The first edition of these rankings goes back to 2010 although I started to work on it in its second edition in 2011. It is based on bibliometric data from Thomson Reuters Web of Science and ranks universities according to the IFQ2A Index (more info available in a paper published in Scientometrics).

This ranking was presented at the ISSI Conference 2013 with a follow-up paper in Scientometrics:

Robinson-Garcia, N.; Torres-Salinas, D.; Delgado López-Cózar, E.; Herrera, F. An insight on the importance of national university rankings in an international context: The case of the I-UGR Rankings of Spanish universities. Scientometrics. Online first. doi:10.1007/s11192-014-1263-1

OA version

Robinson-Garcia, N.; Moreno-Torres, J.G.; Torres-Salinas, D.; Delgado López-Cózar, E.; Herrera, F. The role of national university rankings in an international context: the case of the I-UGR Rankings of Spanish Universities. Conference Proceedings from the 14th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference, vol. 2, 1550-1565.

OA version - PPT

Classifying and visualizing the disciplinary focus of universities
The invisible factor of university rankings

Supervisors: Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras and Emilio Delgado-López-Cózar

External referees: Henk F. Moed and Juan Gorraiz
Members of the Examining Board:Domingo Docampo, Teodoro Luque-Martínez, Thed N. van Leeuwen, Clara Calero-Medina and Rafael Ruiz-Pérez
Date of defense: July 14, 2014

Description: International university rankings have become an important tool for research policy makers and university managers in which to base their decisions. However, they present strong methodological and technical limitations that endanger the output of these decisions, threatening disciplinary diversification and neglecting national differences. This thesis analyzes these two specific aspects and propose visualization and science mapping methodologies as well as the use of national university rankings by fields as a means to surpass such limitations.


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PhD PROPOSAL - 2011
PhD DEFENSE - 2014
Publications
  • Robinson-Garcia, N.; Torres-Salinas, D.; Delgado López-Cózar, E.; Herrera, F. (2014). An insight on the importance of national university rankings in an international context: The case of the I-UGR Rankings of Spanish universities. Scientometrics. Online first. doi:10.1007/s11192-014-1263-1

  • Robinson-Garcia, N.; Calero-Medina, C. (2014). What do rankings by fields rank? Exploring discrepancies between the organizational structure of universities and bibliometric classifications. Scientometrics, 98(3), 1955-1970. doi: 10.1007/s11192-013-1157-7

  • Torres-Salinas, D.; Robinson-Garcia, N.; Jiménez-Contreras, E.; Herrera, F.; Delgado-López-Cózar, E. (2013). On the use of biplot analysis for multivariate bibliometric and scientific indicators. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(7), 1468-1479. doi:10.1002/asi.22837

  • García, J.A.; Rodriguez-Sanchez, R.; Fdez-Valdivia, J.; Robinson-Garcia, N.; Torres-Salinas, D. (2012). Mapping academic institutions according to their journal publication profile: Spanish universities as a case study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(11), 2328-2340. doi:10.1002/asi.22735

  • Robinson-Garcia, N.; Torres-Salinas, D.; García, J.A.; Rodriguez-Sanchez, R.; Fdez-Valdivia, J. (2013). Análisis de redes de las universidades españolas de acuerdo a su perfil de publicación en revistas por áreas científicas. Revista Española de Documentación Científica, 36(4), e027. doi:10.3989/redc.2013.4.1042

Granted research projects

Viability of co-downloading data analysis for mapping interdisciplinary research at institutional level
Principal investigator: Daniel Torres-Salinas
Programme: Elsevier Bibliometric Program
Funding agency: Elsevier
Time period: 01/01/2014-31/12/2014
Research team: Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras, Rosa Rodriguez-Sanchez, Jose A. García, Joaquín Fdez-Valdivia
Evaluación de editoriales y libros científicos españoles en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales a través del análisis de citas y difusión en bibliotecas (2000-2008)
Principal investigator: Emilio Delgado López-Cózar
Programme: Plan Nacional I+D+i (2011) REF. HAR2011-30383-C02-02
Funding agency: Dirección General de Investigación y Gestión del Plan Nacional de I+D+I. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Time period: 01/01/2012-31/12/2014
Research team: Daniel Torres-Salinas, Álvaro Cabezas-Clavijo, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia

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