Beni Suef University ranks fifth place among Egyptian universities at the level of scientific research in the Spanish Scimago ranking for 2020

21 Jan 2021
Beni

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Dr. Mansour Hassan, President of Beni Suef University, announced that the university ranked the fifth place at the level of scientific research after the mother universities (Cairo, Ain Shams, Alexandria, and Mansoura), the seventh place at the level of Egyptian universities, the tenth place in the societal rank at the level of Egyptian universities, the 39th in the Middle East, and the 30th in Africa

It is noteworthy that the Scimago classification depends on several axes and indicators that reflect the research, societal and economic ranking, according to a composite index that combines three different indicators based on research performance (50%), innovation outputs (30%) and societal impact (20%), and each main indicator includes many Sub-indicators, such as the research volume of universities in terms of the number of published papers, and university's statistics and outputs in terms of the quality of journals in which the research is published ,the number of reference citations, journal relative impact factors, and provided that the institution publishes at least 100 papers in the SCOPUS database in the year of evaluation

Beni Suef University excels due to the efforts of researchers, the university’s top management encouragement of international publication in the first quarter magazines (Q1) in addition to the large number of international partnerships and collaborations with prestigious universities, as well as encouraging publication in open source journals