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2017
One of the recurrent criticisms levelled against rankings is that they are simplistic and reductionist. Yet, from the user perspective, this ‘simplicity' yields important advantages when rankings are contributing to decision-making. To encompass these two opposing views, QS has sought to maintain a critical and self-reflective stance, continuously ...
Ben Sowter, Shadi Hijazi, David Reggio
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One of the recurrent criticisms levelled against rankings is that they are simplistic and reductionist. Yet, from the user perspective, this ‘simplicity' yields important advantages when rankings are contributing to decision-making. To encompass these two opposing views, QS has sought to maintain a critical and self-reflective stance, continuously ...
Ben Sowter, Shadi Hijazi, David Reggio
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Anchoring effects in world university rankings: exploring biases in reputation scores
Higher Education, 2010 Despite ongoing debates about their uses and validity, university rankings are a popular means to compare institutions within a country and around the world.
Nicholas A Bowman, Michael N Bastedo
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South African universities in world rankings
Scientometrics, 2012South Africa has 23 universities, of which five are placed in one or more of the 2011 Shanghai Jiao Tong, Times Higher Education, and Quacquarelli Symonds world university rankings. The five are: Cape Town, Witwatersrand, KwaZulu-Natal, Stellenbosch and Pretoria.
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World-wide university rankings: A Scandinavian approach
Scientometrics, 2007Although universities’ world rankings are popular, their design and methods still request considerable elaborations. The paper demonstrates some shortcomings in the Academic World Ranking of Universities (ARWU, Shanghai Jiao Tong University) ranking methods.
Osmo Kivinen, Juha Hedman
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Inconsistencies and Doubtful of World University Rankings
The Journal of Ocean, Mechanical and Aerospace -science and engineering- (JOMAse), 2018University rankings have become a trend to gauge the credibility and quality of the university. The university rating has generated much debate about the usefulness, method and accuracy of the assessment results. There are some institution who issued university rankings such as QS, 4ICU, CWUR and Webometrics. The universities were assessed depending on
J Koto, A.A Wijaya, M Putrawidjaja
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Meta-ranking to position world universities
Studies in Higher Education, 2019ABSTRACTUniversity rankings have proliferated in recent years and have been diverse, with a variety of profiles.
Teodoro Luque-Martínez, Nina Faraoni
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World’s Best Universities and Personalized Rankings
2016This chapter presents a heuristic for a multi-objective ranking problem using a dataset of international interest as an example of its application, namely, the ranking of the world's top educational institutions. The problem of ranking academic institutions is a subject of keen interest for administrators, consumers, and research policy makers.
Inostroza-Ponta, Mario +2 more
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Üsküdar University Ranked in THE 2026 World Rankings
ühaÜsküdar University Ranked in THE 2026 World ...
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The Ranking Web and the “World-Class” Universities
2013The purpose of this paper is to discuss the new developments in the methodology used for building the Ranking Web of Universities, also called the Webometrics Ranking (WebR) . Contrary to other rankings that ignore caveats and shortcomings in order to maintain inter-year stability, the WebR ranking is evolving for improving the reliability of sources ...
Isidro F. Aguillo, Enrique Orduña-Malea
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Understanding World University Ranking
World university rankings are critical for prospective students, faculty members, and policymakers evaluating HEIs based on various ranking indicators. The author adopted a mixed-methods study design where a narrative review was carried out to describe three ranking methodologies (i.e., THE, QS, and ARWU), including HEIs' challenges in the ranking ...openaire +1 more source