Thursday, September 28, 2006

Ranking of IberoAmerican Institutions of Higher Education

Read "Latin American universities ranked by research output" by Zoraida Portillo in SciDev.Net, 21 September 2006.

This website uses publication data to rank the universities in Latin America and other Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. The site is well organized to allow the user to specify rankings to be displayed in a number of categories. Notably, the website provides rankings by numbers of publications, influence of publications, and publications weighted by influence. It should be of interest to those working in science policy and policy for higher education, as well as to those with more general interests, including those considering graduate school.

The top research institutions in Latin America by the weighted indicator are:
1. Fundación Campomar (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2. Centro de Estudios Cientificos de Santiago (Valdivia, Chile)
3. Hospital de Gastroenterología Carlos B. Udaondo (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
4. Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia)
5. Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
6. Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (San Luis de Potosí, Mexico)
7. Instituto de Investigaciones en Catálisis y Petroquímica (Santa Fe, Argentina)
8. Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (São Paulo, Brazil)
9. Hospital Universitario de Caracas (Caracas, Venezuela)
10. Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo (México, D.F.)
Of course, the big universities, such as the Universities of Sao Paulo and Campinas in Brazil, UNAM in Mexico, and the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina lead in the categories of total papers produced and total papers cited in the literature, but the ten institutions listed above seem to be working at a very high level of quality in their specific fields of science.

Ranking of IberoAmerican Institutions of Higher Education website.

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