International scientometric rankings SCImago 2019 has been recently released. This year, 33 Ukrainian institutions participated in it. Among them there are 16 institutions of higher education.
SCImago Institutions Rankings is scientometric rankings. The difference lies in the use of the Scopus database. SCIMago is a ranking of scientific organizations, not just higher education institutions. The only restriction to enter this ranking is to have at least 100 publications of any type indexed in Scopus for the last 5 years.
In SCImago ranking 2019 the first place among Ukrainian higher education institutions is taken by Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, the second – Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and the third – Danylo Halytskyi Lviv National Medical University.
Lviv Polytechnic National University is on the sixth place.