On the credibility of QS and THE ranking by subject area: misalignment of subject mapping to academic disciplines

• Published in: Scientometrics Vol. 130; no. 4; pp. 2237 - 2272
• Main Authors: Alshraideh, Hussam, Abdelgawad, Mohamed
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.04.2025; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Academic disciplines; Chemical engineering; Civil engineering; Classification; Colleges & universities; Computer Science; Education; Fuel technology; Information Storage and Retrieval; Institutions; Library Science; Mapping; Misalignment; Nuclear engineering; Nuclear power plants; Ranking; Arab world; THE subject ranking; QS subject ranking; Subject mapping; University ranking

In this study, we point the attention to some inaccuracies in the mapping between the journal subject classification by Elsevier and the narrow subject field used by QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) and THE (Times Higher Education) in their World University Rankings by subject. We noticed that inaccuracies...