Date: 12/20/2010
TUMSPR News: In the latest release of SCImago World Institutions Ranking in health sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) has achieved the first rank nationally, the second rank in the Middle-East Region and 270 in the world.
In the latest release of SCImago World Institutions Ranking in Health Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) has achieved the first rank nationally, the second rank in the Middle-East Region and 270 in the world. In this ranking, Health Sciences encompasses, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Health Professions and Veterinary.
Shiraz, Shahid Beheshti, Isfahan, Iran and Tabriz Universities of Medical Sciences have ranked second to sixth as University of Tehran, Tarbiat Modaress or Teachers Training Center, Pasture Institute and Mashad Ferdowsi University have followed the rest in the Health Sciences.
In the Global Ranking of world institutions, University of Tehran has ranked 1st in Iran, 6th in the Middle-East and 474 in the world and Tehran University of Medical Sciences has achieved the third rank in Iran, tenth in the region and 691 in the World.
In life sciences, including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Neuroscience , Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics and Immunology and Microbiology, University of Tehran has achieved the first place in Iran, sixth place in the world and 482nd in the world while and Tehran University of Medical Sciences has achieved the second rank in Iran, 8th in the region and 551st in the world.
The data used for the analysis have been provided by SCOPUS scientific database and the research data in focus have been the publications of scholarly material during 2004 to 2008. The criterion for inclusion of institutions in the present ranking has been publication of at least 100 papers in 2008.
Universities and other research‐focused organizations grouped into five Institutional Sectors: Higher Education, Health System, Government Agencies, Corporatios and others have been included in the ranking by SCImago Research Group which is situated in Spain. The group also publishes webometric ranking of world university websites annually.
The four selected indicators used in the report try to display the main aspects of research size, performance, impact and internationalization of Research Institutions.
1- O stands fro Output and it includes an institution's publication output in terms of published documents in scholarly journals.
2- IC stands for International Collaboration and it shows the institution's output ratio that has been produced in collaboration with foreign institutions and in fact, it displays the institution's output whose affiliation includes more than one country address over the whole period.
3- NI stands for Normalized Impact and it reveals the ratio between
the average scientific impact of an institution and the world average impact of publications of the same time period and subject area. The values are expressed in percentages and show the relationship of the institution's average impact to the world average, which is 1, for example, if the score is 0.8 it means the institution is cited 20% below average and 1.2 means the institution is cited 20% above average.
4- Q1 stands for High Quality Publications Ratio of publications that an institution publishes in the most influential scholarly journals of the world. Journals considered for this indicator are those ranked in the first quartile (25%) in their categories as ordered by SCImago Journal Rank SJR indicator.
The released data offers relevant information to policymakers, research managers and researchers as well as media and public interested in finding out about research performance of worldwide Institutions.
http://publicrelations.tums.ac.ir/english/news/detail.asp?newsID=21249
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