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The Shanghai Rankings 2004-2013 18 Aug 2013 | 03:26 am
One sign of the reliability of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities is that at the top there is little change from year to year. It is difficult to get excited about Tokyo slipping one ...
The Webometrics Methodology 14 Aug 2013 | 03:07 pm
Isidro F. Aguillo of Webometrics has kindly sent me a summary of the methodology: - The ranking intends to measure global performance of the universities using the web only as a proxy. Web design is....
The Webometrics Rankings 14 Aug 2013 | 03:03 pm
The July 2013 Webometrics rankings have just been published. The top five are: 1. Harvard 2. MIT 3. Stanford 4. UC Berkeley 5. UCLA In first place in various regions are: Latin America: Sao Pa...
The Forbes Rankings 3 Aug 2013 | 10:35 am
Forbes has just released its Best College list, which is compiled by the Center of College Affordability and Productivity. This index reflects student needs and the indicators include quality of teach...
Shopping Around 29 Jul 2013 | 09:01 am
It seems that many universities are now targeting specific rankings. One example is Universiti Malaya which submits data to QS but so far has not taken part in the THE rankings. Now there is a report...
A bad idea but not really new 19 Jul 2013 | 09:22 am
From Times Higher Education University teachers everywhere are subject to this sort of pressure but it is unusual for it to be stated so explicitly. "A university put forward plans to assess academi...
Serious Wonkiness 12 Jul 2013 | 04:23 pm
Alex Usher at HESA had a post on the recent THE Under-50 Rankings. Here is an except about the Reputation and Citations indicators. "But there is some serious wonkiness in the statistics behind this ...
The Complete Efficiency Rankings 2 Jul 2013 | 08:51 pm
At last. Here are complete Efficiency Rankings measuring the efficiency with which universities turn inputs into citations. I am using the method of Professor Dirk van Damme which is to divide the sco...
Competition and Controversy in Global Rankings 1 Jul 2013 | 09:04 am
My article, 'Competition and Controversy in Global Rankings' can be accessed here.
What about a Research Influence Ranking? 25 Jun 2013 | 02:03 pm
Keeping up with the current surge of global university rankings is becoming next to impossible. Still there are a few niches that have remained unoccupied. One might be a ranking of universities acco...
