Ibero-American Ranking SIR 2010

Ranking of 607 Ibero-American Universities according to their research activity in the term 2003-2008.
The report analyses universities' publication size, international collaboration and research quality.
It is a research evaluation tool for policy makers and research managers.
It has been developed by SCImago Research Group over Elsevier's database Scopus data.

Madrid, may 24, 2010 2010 -- As a part of its strategy for developing research evaluation tools, SCImago Research Group has released the Ibero-American Ranking SIR 2010. The report includes the 607 Ibero-American High Education Institutions that published at least one scientific paper during the year 2008, according to Elsevier's prestigious scientific database Scopus.

The ranking includes scientific indicators that show ordered information about research activity for the term 2003-2008. The scientific output of universities is analysed alongside with universities' ability to produce research in cooperation with foreign countries and scientific impact. The indicator included are:

Scientific Output measured as the number of scientific papers according to Scopus.
International Collaboration measured as the ratio of scientific documents a university publishes in collaboration with foreign universities.
Average Scientific Quality, as the citation rate a university receives compared to the World Average (according to the normalized citation indicator developed at Karolinska Instituet in Sweden)
Publication Rate into the 25% of “Best Journals” according to SJR indicator developed by SCImago Research Group.

The Ibero-American Ranking SIR 2010 aims at becoming an evaluation tool to represent, in a schematic but meaningful way, the quantity and quality of research carried out at Ibero-American Universities. Its target audience is formed by Policy Makers responsible for science, innovation and techonology programs and planning, and Research Managers at institutions responsible for allocating research resources as a benchmarking tool.

About the SIR Project

The SCImago Institutions Rankins project is an research evaluation environment for worldwide universities and research-focused institutions, it is developed by SCImago Research Group over Elsevier's database Scopus arising from a collaboration agreement.

Website: http://www.scimagoir.com

About SCImago

SCImago is a research group devoted to Science Evaluation by means of analysis, visualization and evaluation of the information contained in large scientific databases. SCImago Research Group has members at Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and Universities of Granada, Alcalá de Henares and Carlos III in Madrid, Extremadura in Spain and Porto (Portugal), National University of La Plata (Argentina) and Catholic University of Valparaiso (Chile).

SCImago Research Group participates in the development of several scientific information analysis tools, being the most notable the journal evaluation environment SCImago Journal & Country Rank (http://www.scimagojr.com) which includes the SJR indicator used by Scopus to evaluate journal's scientific prestige. And the SCImago Institutions Rankings (http://www.scimagoir.com) to analyse the research performance of worldwide universities and research-focused institutions.

Media Contact

Borja González Pereira, SCImago Communication Manager

Email: borja.gonzalez@scimago.es

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