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Comparing university rankings

Scientometrics, 2010
Recently there is increasing interest in university rankings. Annual rankings of world universities are published by QS for the Times Higher Education Supplement, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Higher Education and Accreditation Council of Taiwan and rankings based on Web visibility by the Cybermetrics Lab at CSIC.
Isidro F. Aguillo   +3 more
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The University Rankings Game

The American Statistician, 2008
With university rankings gaining both in popularity and influence, university administrators develop strategies to improve their rankings. To better understand this competition for ranking, we present an adjacent category logit model to address the localized nature of ranking competition and include lagged rank as an independent variable to account for
Grewal, Rajdeep   +2 more
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University Rankings

2017
While we all recognise the limitations of ranking systems, even if combined with bibliometrics, they remain influential at both the national and international arenas even if a large component is anchored in a subjective reputation survey. While the rankings give visibility to young and rising universities, and this is one way for them to gain worldwide
Bertil Andersson, Tony Mayer
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Rankings of universities in the FRG

Scientometrics, 1990
The following article examines whether an aggregate comparison (i.e. without discriminating by subject) of university performance in the FRG resulting in a ranking of universities is feasible. First, methods of efficiency measurement are reviewed and possible indicators discussed.
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Nondeterministic ranking of university departments

Journal of Informetrics, 2016
Rankings in higher education are largely used to summarize a huge amount of information into easily understandable numbers. They are also used by governments in order to allocate funding. Nevertheless, they are often criticized. One stream of criticism refers to the fact that rankings build up an ordinal order by considering only the mean of the ...
BONACCORSI, ANDREA, Tindaro, Cicero
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Ranked Universe

1994
Abstract Properly speaking, the book begins with this chapter. In Section 4.1 we define the notion of a ranked universe. We leave to the Appendix C and [285] the verification that the ranked groups are in fact the groups of finite Morley rank, as the original definition of Morley rank plays no particular role here.
Alexandre Borovik, Ali Nesin
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Skyline-Based University Rankings

2020
University rankings comprise a significant tool in making decisions in our modern educational process. In this paper, we propose a novel university ranking method based on the skyline operator, which is used on multi-dimensional objects to extract the non-dominated (i.e.“prevailing") ones.
Georgios Stoupas   +3 more
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University rankings need a rethink

Nature, 2020
World league tables for higher education are flawed, poorly used and entrench inequity. World league tables for higher education are flawed, poorly used and entrench inequity.
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Sustainability Rankings of Universities

ARIS, Programi, SI, Računsko intenzivni kompleksni ...
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Globalization and Global University Rankings

2014
Globalization has been neither neutral nor uniform in its impact. It affects countries, cultures, and systems in different ways—some in positive ways and others in more negative ways. All sectors of society are being affected; and higher education is no exception.
Val D. Rust, Stephanie Kim
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