The QS World University Ranking by Subject 2011 has recently been published for Economics and Econometrics.
In the 2011 ranking, the Faculty of Economics and Business has been listed among the top 100 universities in the world and is the highest placed Spanish university.
The QS World Universities Ranking is the only major international ranking to consider data on specific subjects, where other rankings focus on broader scientific areas or use data derived only from scientific output. QS bases its ratings on three main concepts: the academic reputation of the institution; the reputation of the institution among employers; and citations by faculty, which takes into account data from Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. For more information on the methodology used to compile the ranking, follow the link below.
Tilburg University (the Netherlands) publishes an annual ranking of the leading international universities in economics research. The ranking score is based on the number of publications in the 68 leading international journals in econometrics, economics and finance.
The data from 2010, which reflect research publication over the period 2005-2010, place the UB 189th internationally and 66th in Europe, making it the fifth highest-ranked university in Spain.
The three leading Spanish universities in the ranking are Pompeu Fabra University, Carlos III University of Madrid and the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
The top ten universities are all from the USA and include prominent institutions including Harvard University, the University of Chicago and the Universityof California, Berkeley. The leading European university is the London School of Economics and Political Science, ranked 11th.
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The ISI ranking is put together by researchers from the Evaluation of Science and Scientific Communication research group (University of Granada andUniversity of Navarra) and the Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems research group (University of Granada). The ranking is compiled using six bibliometric indicators of scientific output and impact and based mainly on data from the Thomson-Reuters [formerly ISI] Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports. The indicators are combined to form two parameters that reflect the quantitative (volume) and qualitative (impact) value of the institutions listed. These two parameters are the basis of the IFQ2A-Index (Institutional Field Qualitative-Quantitative Analysis Index), which is used to score universities for each of the 12 fields and 19 disciplines covered by the ranking.
The University of Barcelona is ranked fifth for economics and business for the period 2001-2011 and holds the same position for the five-year period 2006-2010.
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IDEAS is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to the field of economics available on the Internet. Its ranking is generated from data registered by researchers and authors on RePeC, from institutions listed in the EDIRC index, bibliographic statistics recorded by RePeC, analysis of CitEc citations and data compiled by LogEC. For more information on the ranking and data sources, click on the link.
As of March 2013 the Faculty of Economics and Business is ranked 124th in the overall list of Economics Departments all over the world, making it a top 10% economic institution from a total of 1,854 registered institutions. The faculty is placed 89th in Europe, from a total of 2,938 institutions and 18,974 authors. Within Spain, it is the sixth highest-placed institution from a total of 289 institutions and 1,659 authors.
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The Ranking of Excellent European Graduate Programs (CHE-Excellence Ranking) is a European classification designed by the Center for Higher Education in Germany.
The CHE ExcellenceRanking highlights the research strengths and internationalisation of European universities. The CHE Excellence Ranking does not define “rank positions” for individual, but rather assigns “stars” to the departments that do particularly well in the respecitve indicator. An extensive description of the results and the method can be found HERE.
In the last ranking, the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Barcelona has been awarded with a star in the following fields: citations, student’s mobility, international doctorates, international master’s students, gender balance staff, gender balance master’s students, and scientific journals in library.
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