UNAIR NEWS聽鈥 QS World University Rankings (WUR) for many universities in Indonesia is a quality benchmark in the international arena.聽 is ranked #465 in QS WUR 2022. On Tuesday, November 2, 2021, the APPLE QS Conference released its ranking analysis in Asia and essential aspects that universities must pay attention to improve their rankings.
贰苍迟颈迟濒别诲听Asia Rankings Launch, QS Rankings Manager Andrew MacFarlane and QS Ranking Analyst Kendrick Ng presented the report on the qualities of universities in Asia.聽Andrew said that QS publishes six rankings, World University Rankings, Business and MBA Rankings, Regional Rankings, Graduate Employability Rankings, Subject Rankings, and USA Rankings.
鈥淭he six ranking areas are not only used to assess universities. However, it particularly helps prospective students to determine the best university choice for the continuation of their studies, 鈥渆xplained Andrew.
Until now, QS has collaborated with 687 educational institutions in Asia.聽For scoring, there are eight aspects that QS Asia Rankings looks at.聽The first aspect with the largest portion is academic reputation.聽The second is聽employer reputations followed by research quality and quantity.
鈥淥ther aspects that are no less important are聽faculty students,聽international research networks,聽exchange students,聽teaching staff with Ph.D., and internationalization,鈥 he added.
Unfortunately, Indonesian journals are still lagging behind in the aspect of citations, even below other Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei Darussalam, Thailand, and the Philippines. In fact, citations that are included in the research assessment have a reasonably large portion in the assessment.
For this reason, in the聽online聽session, QS Ranking also invited the Head of Research Analytics of Elsevier, Dr.Yingying Zhou.聽Dr.聽Yingying specifically spoke about the use of bibliometric data in ranking.
The research expert said that Scopus publications were significant to describe the university鈥檚 research and demonstrate its international affiliation in global literature.聽Furthermore, the more聽Scopus聽journals聽issued, the greater the citation opportunities for campus academics.
In terms聽of聽academic聽output, Southeast Asia is still lagging behind other Asia-Pacific regions such as East Asia, South Asia, or Australia.聽For that, Dr.聽Yingying appealed to universities to increase publications and academic collaborations at the international level.聽(*)
Author: Intang Arifia
Editor: Binti Q. Masruroh
