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Factors affecting academic failure in medical students in Iran [PDF]
Research and Development in Medical Education, 2021 Background: Students are considered part of the capital of each country. Several factors can affect their educational status and, as a result, contribute to their academic failure. The current study seeks to investigate the relationship between students’
Zohreh Tajabadi +9 more
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Analyzing the activities of visitors of the Leiden Ranking website
Journal of Data and Information Science, 2018 To get a better understanding of the way in which university rankings are used.
Eck Nees Jan van, Waltman Ludo
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PLOS ONE, 2016 A mere hyperbolic law, like the Zipf's law power function, is often inadequate to describe rank-size relationships. An alternative theoretical distribution is proposed based on theoretical physics arguments starting from the Yule-Simon distribution. A modeling is proposed leading to a universal form.
Cerqueti Roy, Ausloos Marcel
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The international and national university rankings as an constituent of university`s competitiveness [PDF]
Marketing i Menedžment Innovacij, 2016 The aim of the article. The aim of the article is to define the importance of participation in World or National universities rankings for higher university institutions as an effective tool in development and improvement of higher education system in ...
Yu.S. Shypulina +2 more
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Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2019 Background: Web is considered an important tool for formal and informal communication and cooperation among members of the community including researchers.
Nahid RAMEZANGHORBANI +2 more
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Improve the Ranking of Arab Universities in the World Universities Rankings [PDF]
American Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2019 The race to compete in the world rankings of universities is one of the most important priorities of scientific universities in recent times. The purpose of this paper is to reduce waste or losses of Arab scientific research outputs to a minimum and optimize the utilization of these outputs, which will positively affect the degree of ranking of Arab ...
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Smartness of Learning Ecosystems and its bottom-up emergence in six European Campuses [PDF]
Interaction Design and Architecture(s), 2015 Each year a considerable amount of money is spent in the production of several national and international University rankings that may deeply influence the students’ enrollment.
Carlo Giovannella +5 more
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Critical Times, 2022 Abstract The ranking systems for universities aim at the quantification of all aspects of university life. For many decades, universities prided themselves on the differences among them. Rankings reduced discussions about the qualitative differences among universities to discussions of numerical differences.
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The politics of university rankings in China
Higher Education, 2023 AbstractOver the past decade, universities in the People’s Republic of China have notably progressed in international rankings. Most of the existing literature interested in this development describes the adoption of university rankings in China as a recent import of a global institution, and as being driven by a governmental agenda that seeks to ...
Anna L. Ahlers +1 more
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The SSCI Syndrome in Taiwan’s Academia
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014 With the global expansion of higher education in the last two decades, the maintenance of academic quality to meet requirements for international competitiveness has become a critical issue for policymakers and universities.
Chuing Prudence Chou
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