SESRTCIC Ranking
A preliminary report on the academic rankings of universities in the OIC prepared by the Turkish-based Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Center for Islamic Countries (SESRTCIC, an OIC affiliate, showed the top 20 universities based on the number of articles published in 2004-2006 to be Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Kuwait and Malaysia, but the ranking in terms of citations per article are universities in Indonesia, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Iraq and Mozambique.
Another ranking in the report based on a composite index (research quality, research performance, research volume and rate of growth for research quality) showed the top 20 universities to be in Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan, UAE, Kuwait and Lebanon. The top ranked Saudi university, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, came in at 31 followed by King Saud University at 71.
The research was conducted by SESRTCIC to realize the OIC Ten-Year Programme of Action targeted at facilitating the placement of OIC universities among the top 500 universities in the world.
The ranking of universities in the OIC member countries was announced in a seminar held in Tehran on 29-30 April 2007 under the title: "Global repositioning of OIC Universities"
The ranking is based on objective measurements and includes a number of rankings based on different criteria widely used in this area such as:
* Internationally comparable data accessible to verification and objective quantitative criteria
* The Number of articles published by all universities in the period of 2001, 2004-2006 and number of citations received by these publications and a combination of both
* The data from the database of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI Articles published in journals indexed in Science Citation Index Science Citations Index Expanded ) Social Science Citation Index ) ISI Web of Knowledge
The ranking was done first for 323 of 1700 universities in the OIC based on single factor ranking. Then, 85 of 323 universities were analyzed for ranking by the composite index.
Based on this process, the UAE University is being ranked as
· The first in the Gulf Region among GCC countries;
· The second in the Arab world; and
· The ninth in the Islamic countries.
Top 20 universities by the composite index
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