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University rankings: Time to reconsider [PDF]
BioImpactsUniversity rankings offer some benefits but also come with significant drawbacks. While they can encourage healthy competition, they often lead to unethical practices and prioritize short- term gains over long-term educational purposes. Relying on biased
Khaled Moustafa
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Mis-Measuring Our Universities: Why Global University Rankings Don’t Add Up [PDF]
Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2021 Draws parallels between the problematic use of GDP to evaluate economic success with the use of global university rankings to evaluate university success.
Elizabeth Gadd
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University rankings: The web ranking
Higher Learning Research Communications, 2012 The publication in 2003 of the Ranking of Universities by Jiao Tong University of Shanghai has revolutionized not only academic studies on Higher Education, but has also had an important impact on the national policies and the individual strategies of ...
Isidro F. Aguillo
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Global network centrality of university rankings [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Universities and higher education institutions form an integral part of the national infrastructure and prestige. As academic research benefits increasingly from international exchange and cooperation, many universities have increased investment in ...
Weisi Guo +2 more
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The rank boost by inconsistency in university rankings: Evidence from 14 rankings of Chinese universities [PDF]
Quantitative Science Studies, 2021 University ranking has become an important indicator for prospective students, job recruiters, and government administrators. The fact that a university rarely has the same position in different rankings motivates us to ask: To what extent could a ...
Wenyu Chen, Zhangqian Zhu, Tao Jia
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World-Class or World-Ranked Universities? Performativity and Nobel Laureates in Peace and Literature [PDF]
Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018 It is erroneous to draw too many conclusions about global university rankings. Making a university’s reputation rest on the subjective judgement of senior academics and over-reliance on interpreting and utilising secondary data from bibliometrics and ...
Brian Denman
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University rankings and medical physics. [PDF]
Australas Phys Eng Sci Med, 2013 In recent years there has been a move to quantify many aspects of higher education productivity. To this end, this author previously published on the role of the h-index and how it is being used as a quantifier of research productivity of the individual researcher [1, 2].
Baldock C.
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Critically Examine University Management in Achieving top Global Rankings [PDF]
پژوهشهای مدیریت عمومی, 2020 Extended Abstract Abstract This study aimed to critically examine university management in achieving top global rankings, using a qualitative-research approach with Ruth Wodak’s method of critical discourse analysis.
Atefeh Rigi +2 more
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Frontiers in Education, 2023 This study evaluated world university rankings in Taiwan. Media reports and the literature on world university rankings have focused on rankings, particularly in Taiwan.
Ru-Jer Wang, Yi-Haung Shih
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Diponegoro University Heading to become a Research University (Phase I – Phase IV) Between Expectation and Reality [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Diponegoro University is one reputable university belonging to Indonesia. This state university is located in Semarang, Central Java Province. Global dynamics have also colored its journey in implementing its traditionally assigned three missions ...
Handayani Tri, Maheswari Daivangga
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