Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced preliminary results of its Academic Reputation Survey. The survey not only received responses from professional scholars across the world, but also across different subject areas.
Thousands of responses were received in six subject areas - engineering and technology; physical sciences; life sciences; clinical, preclinical and health; social sciences; and arts and humanities. Nearly one third of these responses came from Asia, including a strong representation from China and Japan.
To help control for language and translation bias the Academic Reputation Survey was offered in eight languages. This included Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese and English.
The Academic Reputation Survey is part of the Thomson Reuters Global Institutional Profiles Project. The initiative will create data-driven profiles of globally significant research institutions — combining reputational feedback, scholarly outputs, citation patterns, funding levels, and faculty characteristics across disciplines in one comprehensive database. The dataset can be packaged and analysed to different specifications, giving organisations custom information for evaluating and benchmarking their performance and supporting efforts to secure research funding. The data gathered for the Global Institutional Profiles Project will also help inform the Times Higher Education’s influential World University Rankings.
Thomson Reuters will continue to analyse and release detailed results of the Academic Reputation Survey in the coming months.
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