Global Institutional Profiles Project
Diversify your indicators of academic excellence.
Creating the richest, clearest institutional profiles
Join the effort to create accurate and comprehensive profiles of research institutions around the world.
Since 2009, Clarivate has been profiling the world’s leading universities and research institutions using an exclusive set of key performance indicators for our Global Institutional Profiles Project.
Institutional Profiles facilitate a multidimensional and unbiased comparison of several aspects of a university’s performance regardless of the university’s mission, size, geographical location or subject mix. Combining gold-standard bibliometric information with unique data on reputation, demographics and funding creates a 360-degree view of an institution.
These Profiles are used by universities, funding agencies, governments and rankings agencies as a valuable tool to identify weaknesses and strengths, compare to global or regional benchmarks and to promote achievements to their stakeholders.
Institutional Profiles, a comprehensive portrait of facts and figures
Directly sourced data
Provides a curated, normalized set of data points, compiled in partnership with more than 800 global research institutions
Multi-faceted perspectives
Offers a variety of quantitative and qualitative metrics on research activity, students and staff, funding and reputation
Variety of use-cases
Includes data points that can be used to analyze institutional research performance in InCites Benchmarking & Analytics™
Three unique sources across six academic disciplines
The Global Institutional Profiles Project collects, validates and analyzes data from the following three unique sources and across six broad academic disciplines.
Demographical data collected directly from universities
Clarivate works directly with administrative offices of the world’s leading universities to collect data on staff, students and degrees awarded, gender, international diversity and funding.
Where appropriate, we reference authoritative third-party data sources and all the data is validated by the institution and by Clarivate.
Clarivate annual Academic Reputation Survey
In a multi-lingual survey, Clarivate polls academics around the world asking their feedback on what they consider to be the strongest universities and research institutions in their discipline.
Survey participation is by invitation only– participants are carefully selected by geographical location and discipline for statistically relevant sampling. View the details of the survey methodology here.
See the most recent Academic Reputation Survey summary here.
Publication and citation data from InCites
A comprehensive analysis of institutional performance is conducted using Web of Science Core Collection™ data which encompasses 90M+ publication records and 2.1B+ linked citations across hundreds of disciplines and multiple years. This data is the foundation for InCites Benchmarking & Analytics which provides benchmarking capabilities and normalized metrics.
Citation counts are benchmarked against each of the 254 research areas in the Web of Science to create indicators that reflect performance relative to the average of the research area and year. These are rolled up to create objective indicators that reflect performance regardless of the subject mix of the university.
How can universities benefit from their Global Institutional Profile data?
Every university that contributes to the Global Institutional Profile Project receives a complimentary profile report. Clarivate validates the data and applies powerful analytical techniques to interpret and present the data in a meaningful way.
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FAQs
Our aim with the Global Institutional Profiles Project is to develop a data source that provides the best informed and most effective resource to build profiles of universities and institutions around the world. The Profiles Project will create data-driven portraits of globally significant institutions, combining reputational assessment, scholarly outputs, funding levels, faculty characteristics and much more in one comprehensive database. Clarivate also brings a celebrated legacy of data transparency to the Project, operating with clear methodology and data gathering practices.
As we enter year fifteen of the Profiles Project, we’re happy to announce a growing number of initiatives that rely upon this data.
This data will be:
- Supplied to US News as supplementary data published for all universities ranked in the Best Global University Ranking,
- Ingested into Clarivate’s InCites Benchmarking & Analytics as a part of the Institutional Profiles dataset, which contributes to the creation of unique indicators of research performance,
- Combined with Clarivate Reputation Survey and bibliometric data to form select indicators that will be presented to you in a complimentary university profile.
No, it is free to participate. Institutions that participate, gain added visibility for their institution.
The InCites Institutional Profiles provides data summaries for the world’s leading research institutions using a combination of citation metrics from Web of Science™, factual information submitted by participating institutions, and reputational data from the Clarivate annual Academic Reputation Survey. Institutional Profiles presents details on a wide array of indicators such as faculty size, reputation, funding, citation measures and more. All Global Institutional Profile Project participants who meet the minimum data submission and minimum publication rate requirements are included in the Profiles data.
Institutions may express interest in being profiled by sending an email message to Science.profilesproject@clarivate.com.
Through the annual Clarivate Academic Reputation Survey, approximately 1 million academics around the world are invited to highlight what they believe to be the strongest universities in their specific fields, both in teaching and research. With the ability to select from a wide variety of academic disciplines and over several thousand academic institutions, scholars have great latitude in pinpointing their reputational assessment. Respondents are selected based on their field of study, and to ensure the statistical rigor of the survey, it is circulated as invitation-only. The regional distribution for survey circulation follows the United Nations percentage estimates of global academic researchers by (sub) continent.
