SCIMAGO Ranking
“Scimago Institutions Rankings is a science evaluation resource to assess worldwide universities and research-focused institutions. The ranking tools and reports measure research activity of worldwide institutions having noteworthy scientific output, including universities, government agencies, research labs, hospitals and more …” (more). It is based on the SCOPUS database. As to Irish institutions:
| 2012 World Rank |
2011 World Rank |
|
| UCD | 356 | 385 |
| TCD | 428 | 422 |
| UCC | 571 | 568 |
| NUIG | 797 | 821 |
| DCU | 1039 | 1038 |
| UL | 1122 | 1056 |
| NUIM | 1663 | 2111 |
| RCSI | 1785 | 1683 |
| Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority |
2047 | 2156 |
| DIT | 2068 | 2000 |
| St James’s Hospital | 2216 | 2037 |
| St Vincent’s University Hospital | 2278 | 2147 |
| Beaumont Hospital | 2335 | 2086 |
| Mater Misericordiae University Hospital | 2500 | 2302 |
| National Children’s Hospital | 2826 | 2675 |
| Cork University Hospital | 2846 | 2670 |
| Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children | 2960 | 2781 |
| Galway University Hospital | 3111 | 2903 |
| Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies | 3158 | - |
| Waterford Institute of Technology | 3189 | 3001 |
| Cork Institute of Technology | 3243 | 3016 |