(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Doha: The Sport Science Program (SSP) at Qatar University (QU) ranked in the top 151-200 worldwide for Sport Science Schools and Departments in Shanghai's Global Ranking 2020. Once again, this achievement puts the SSP in a leading position in the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena).
The SSP has made significant progress in research in the last few years and improved its ranking by at least 50 places compared to the 2018 Shanghai Global Ranking edition. Although the SSP is a relatively small program, with only about 10 to 12 faculty members active in research, it competes with much bigger units worldwide, such as sports colleges or schools and sports universities.
Over the last three years, the research outcomes have almost doubled. In 2019, the program reached an average of about five published articles per faculty in reputable journals and publishers. Most publications are in top-tier journals (Q1 and Q2) and open-access, with a median impact factor of around 2.4. This excellent quality of publications assisted the SSP in increasing its visibility and ranking.
One of the pillars of the Sport Science Program is research. To capitalise on the expertise and national/international networks of faculty in SSP and partners at QU and within the Sport Science Community in Qatar, the SSP initiated Research Units in 2017 to increase knowledge on sport and exercise matters in Qatar and the region, including Sport, Culture and Society (SCS), Sport, Physical Activity and Health (SPAH), and Sport Performance (SP).
Chair of Research Enabling Committee in Sport Science Program Dr. Lina Majed said, 'We expect a further improvement in the SSP research output in the coming years. Given that we have a full new facility, which has been dedicated to state-of-the-art laboratories for physiology and movement science testing and research.
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