SQU: Rank (1207), Output (1396), CXD (2.4), Int.Coll. (52.44), Norm.SJR. (0.97), Norm.Cit. (0.61)
So there it goes, out of 2000 institutions worldwide, SQU is # 1207.
This is a new ranking largely based on Scopus database and one that does not show Harvard leading the ranks! Harvard is rather fourth after the French, Russian and Chinese Academies of Science/Research based on the output of articles. So by comparison, SQU output is (1,396), while the top rank # 1 institution published (117,311) documents or 1.2%.
That's not the whole story. The institute also indexes countries and academic journals. So while it is great to see the increase in total published documents (Link), compared to other countries in the Middle East (Link), Oman ranks 9th in total publication output and 4th in the Gulf region after Saudi, UAE & Kuwait. Clicking 'Compare', one can even compare different fields (e.g. Soil Science) among countries in all areas such as total documents, cited documents, self-citation, H-index, and others (Link).
There you will find some interesting statistics, for example sorting by Subject Area, Agricultural & Biological Sciences puts Oman 2nd, while Engineering puts it 4th among GCC countries.
You will also see a drastic reduction in the citations per document from 8 in 1996 to 0.5 in 2007. This can be wrongly justified by the increasing number of documents being published during the same period, however, there is no reason whatsoever for self citation to go down!
Lesson learnt? Next time you publish an article, do the country something good, cite your own work because someone is counting!
All the best and enjoy exploring the data when you have a chance.
The site also list all academic journals in a given field and ranks them accordingly.
Best wishes, Rashid
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It's 1227 and not 1207
ReplyDeleteThank you Zaher for pointing that error out, I corrected it in the text.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that SQU ranking has declined so much in the past 2 reports, it is now ranked at 1588 according to the 2012 report at:
http://www.scimagoir.com/pdf/sir_2012_world_report.pdf
Someone needs to pay attention soon before it is too late.