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The wisdom of ignorant crowds: Predicting sport outcomes by mere recognition

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2011
The collective recognition heuristic is a simple forecasting heuristic that bets on the fact that people’s recognition knowledge of names is a proxy for their competitiveness: In sports, it predicts that the better-known team or player wins a game.
Stefan M. Herzog   +4 more
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Student Characteristics, Institutional Factors, and Outcomes in Higher Education and Beyond: An Analysis of Standardized Test Scores and Other Factors at the Institutional Level with School Rankings and Salary

open access: yesJournal of Intelligence, 2022
When seeking to explain the eventual outcomes of a higher education experience, do the personal attributes and background factors students bring to college matter more than what the college is able to contribute to the development of the student through ...
Jonathan Wai, Bich Tran
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Robustness of journal rankings by network flows with different amounts of memory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
As the number of scientific journals has multiplied, journal rankings have become increasingly important for scientific decisions. From submissions and subscriptions to grants and hirings, researchers, policy makers, and funding agencies make important ...
Bohlin, Ludvig   +3 more
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Algorithmic Management in the Platform Economy

open access: yesSociologica, 2021
The platform model is the distinguishing organizational form of the early decades of the twenty-first century. Whereas actors in markets contract, hierarchies command, and networks collaborate, platforms co-opt assets, resources, and activities that are ...
David Stark, Ivana Pais
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Popular ranking

open access: yesDiscrete Applied Mathematics, 2014
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
van Zuylen, A.   +2 more
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Modeling the variability of rankings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
For better or for worse, rankings of institutions, such as universities, schools and hospitals, play an important role today in conveying information about relative performance.
Hall, Peter, Miller, Hugh
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Academic Rankings — Where Are They Heading?

open access: yesВопросы образования, 2017
The global ranking system is in a state of violent transformation. We can already see the emerging contours of a new ranking system with the four distinguished elements: regional systems, customer-centered systems, multi-league systems, discipline-based ...
Waldemar Siwinski
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Equity of Attention: Amortizing Individual Fairness in Rankings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Rankings of people and items are at the heart of selection-making, match-making, and recommender systems, ranging from employment sites to sharing economy platforms.
Biega, Asia J.   +2 more
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Adaptive scenario-based multi-criteria approach to assessing investment potential in agribusiness

open access: yesπ-Economy
This paper presents a comparative analysis of SAW, TOPSIS, and GDR multi-criteria aggregation methods, applied to the construction of a synthetic investment attractiveness index (SIAI). The relevance of this study is determined by the need to enhance the
Bernagrt Bella, Popova Elena
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University Rankings: The Web Ranking

open access: yesHigher Learning Research Communications, 2012
<p><span lang="ES-PR" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: ES-PR; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">The publication in 2003 of the Ranking of Universities by Jiao Tong University of Shanghai
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