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I am writing you this quick note to announce the release of the SCImago Institutions Rankings. 2009 World Report that will be certainly of your interest and that is available for download at http://www.scimagoir.com.
The report ranks the best 2000 worldwide Research Institutions and Organizations and analyzes its research performance in the period 2003-2007 over 5 global indicators of output (ordering criteria), collaboration and scientific impact.
The current list, showing a first version of the results of the SCImago Institutions Rankings research project, is developed with data from Elsevier’s database Scopus (over 16 millions of publications and 150 millions of citations) and includes research institutions from 84 countries from the five continents, grouped into five research sectors: Government, Higher Education, Health, Corporate and Others.
SCImago Institutions Rankings
The SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) project, developed by SRG SCImago Research Group is a Research Evaluation Platform and Ranking Generator to analyze research outputs of universities and research-focused institutions. The SIR platform aims at designing the analytical tools that will help institutions monitor and assess their research outcomes and make decisions to improve their research performance and funding opportunities.
SCImago Journal & Country Rank
Finally I want to seize this opportunity to inform you about the widely used Open Access Portal for journal and country evaluation SCImago Journal & Country Rank http://www.scimagojr.com), where you will find a lot of tools for the assessment and evaluation of journals and scientific outputs of nations.
Do not hesitate to contact me for further information,
Borja Gonzalez Pereira
SRG SCImago Research Group
http://www.scimago.es
http://www.scimagoir.com
Email: borja.gonzalez at scimago.es