Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that it has completed its Academic Reputation Survey, achieving a record 13,388 responses from professional scholars worldwide. The survey forms part of Thomson Reuters Global Institutional Profiles Project, an initiative that will create data-driven profiles of globally significant research institutions. It will also help inform the Times Higher Education's influential World University Rankings.
Launched in March 2010, the survey claims to be the largest of its kind ever undertaken by Thomson Reuters. Respondents were asked which institutions they considered the best in terms of research, teaching and by other factors such as geographical region. The assessments gathered through the survey will be combined with other key variables to form a comprehensive profile for each institution.
The Global Institutional Profiles Project will combine reputational feedback, scholarly outputs, research citation patterns, funding levels, and faculty characteristics 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.
Thomson Reuters will continue to analyse and the results of the Academic Reputation Survey in the coming months.
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