United Nations - Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Introduction
The Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries - poor, rich and middle-income - to promote prosperity while protecting the planet.
They recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education,
health, social protection, and job opportunities, while tackling climate change and environmental protection. UN SDG's
World Rankings
The Times Higher Education (THE) publish University Impact Rankings, which align with the SDG's.
The indicators used cover three broad areas: research, outreach, and stewardship.
The methodology states that research data is sourced from Scopus, with other information such as staff and student data provided by Universities.
The measures used differ for each SDG. THE Methodology
The aspect we can influence from a research perspective is an increased focus on SDGs in our publishing behaviour.WSU Impact ranking
Scopus have published the criteria used for the THE SDG impact rankings.
This is based on the presence of specific keywords in the Title, abstract or keyword of each publication. Keywords Methodology and Details
The Library have an FAQ page explaining how SDGs are assigned to individual research outputs Library FAQ