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Research Benchmarking

The Global Research Benchmarking System (GRBS) is a project of the United Nations University - International Institute for Software Technology (UNI-IIST). GRBS provides a flexible analytical tool, so as to permit each user to focus on aspects of university research performance most relevant to his/her needs.

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The 2011 release of the GRBS covers disciplines in Science & Technology, organized into a hierarchy of 15 top-level disciplinary categories and up to 250 lower level categories.
It covers universities and does not include research institutes, government agencies, or other institutions engaged in research, and presents a snapshot of their performance within the time-window 2007-2010.
Bibliometric data is taken from Elsevier’s Scopus database. Research funding data for US universities comes from the US National Science Foundation through the Center for Measuring University Performance.

Also of interest:
Higher Education Data Center
published by FACE (Faculty and College Excellence), a national campaign run by the American Federation of Teachers.