Ranking Lists

International lists:

• Academic Ranking of World Universities
  Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• QS World University Rankings
  QS Ltd
  QS World University Rankings by Subject 2013
  QS Top 50 Universities Under 50 2013
• THE World University Rankings
  Times Higher Education Supplement
• The Leiden Ranking
  The Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
• Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
  Cybermetrics Lab

Nordic and European lists:

• Comparison Research at Nordic Universities using Bibliometric Indicators
  NORIA network, NordForsk
• CHE Excellence Ranking
  Centre for Higher Education Development GmbH, Gütersloh, Tyskland

Swedish lists:

• Högskoleranking (in Swedish)
  Sydsvenska Handelskammaren
• A Swedish University Ranking (in Swedish)
  URANK - an association for studies of national and international rankings of universities

Read more:

Avdelningen för nalys och utvärdering vid Göteborgs universitet (2013) University Ranking Lists. A directory. Rapport 2013:03

Ioannidis, JPA (2007) International ranking systems for universities and institutions: A critical appraisal. BMC Medicine 5:30. 

Kivinen, O., Hedman, J. (2008) World-wide university rankings : a Scandinavian approach. Scientometrics 74(3) 391-408.

van Raan, A.F.J. (2004) Fatal attraction: Conceptual and methodological problems in the ranking of universities by bibliometric methods. Scientometrics 62(1) 133-143

Citation Databases

ISI Web of Science

• ca 12000 journals 
• 150 000 proceedings
• 1975- (counts citations from 1945-)
• Updated weekly
• Very good coverage of science and medicine. Good coverage of engineering science, mathematics and business. Poor coverage of other social sciences and arts and humanities. 

Scopus

• ca 19400 journals (including 1900 Open Access-journals)
• 360 book series
• 5.3 million conference proceedings 
  What journals/series are included?
• 1966-
• Counts citations from 1996-
• Updated daily
• Very good coverage of science and medicine. Better coverage than ISI Web of Science for social sciences, business and computer science.

Google Scholar

• Started 2004
• Coverage?
• All subjects
• Updates?
• Many document types:
  Journals, conference proceedings, books, theses, reports, preprints
  Also some non science material
• Better coverage of non-english language material than Web of Science and Scopus
• Most useful for business, engineering science, computer science, mathematics, social sciences and arts and humanities.
• Analytical tool: Publish or Perish

Further reading

Harzing, A-W, van der Wal, R (2007) Google Scholar: The democratization of citation analysis. Accepted for: Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics.

Meho, LI, Yang, Kiduk (2007) Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of Science versus Scopus and Google Scholar. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 58(13):2105-2125.