Thursday, September 30, 2010

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Return of the British Gift for Understatement One of the tiresome things about the ranking season is the mania for inflated adjectives that ...

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The THE Life Sciences Ranking (subscription required) First is MIT, then Harvard, then Stanford. Nothing to argue about there. For research...

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Rankings Undermined by Flawed Indicator See commentary in University World News
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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From the Straits Times of Singapore Students at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have been dismayed by the poor performance in ...
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

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Something is Awry A comment by the President of the University of Alberta. "This year, Times Higher Education partnered with Thompson ...
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Completely Obscure The President of the University of Groningen has commented on the THE 2010-11 World University rankings: "President...
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Friday, September 24, 2010

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Here We Go Again Times Higher Education have released the ranking of the world's top universities in engineering and technology (subscr...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

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Missing the Point One of the most depressing things about university rankings is that whenever rankers make an error or use inappropraiate m...

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From the Economist But I suspect that today's league tables say as much about the motives behind those who compile them (and, indeed, th...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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Selected Comments from Times Higher Education Mike Reddin 17 September, 2010 World university rankings take national ranking systems from t...

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Texas Opted Out From the Texas Tribune "University officials said UT's [University of Texas] absence is not due to an epic fall — ...

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What Happens When You Set the THE Rankings Citations Indicator to Not Important Continued This is a selection of the universities that go u...

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The THE World University Rankings With Citations Set to Not Important The THE rankings Iphone app has the excellent feature of allowing ...
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Comments Apart from spam about Viagra and where to meet beautiful Russian women and so on and one racist diatribe I have until now published...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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From The Students' Room 3 Click here. From AfghanistanBananistan I am intriged about the LSE's ranking. TBH, it does not really mat...

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From The Students' Room 2 Click here Dear Phil Baty, I had sent you email to inquire about the ranking performance of Taiwan's un...

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From the Students' Room There are some interesting comments about the latest THE rankings at their "The Students' Room" He...

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Back to Citations I was hoping to get away from the citations indicator in the THE rankings for a while but there are several comments here ...
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Monday, September 20, 2010

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Alexandria Gets the News The news about being among the top 200 universities in the world has finally reached Alexandria. The reaction is ve...
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Omissions Several writers have noticed the absence of any Israeli universities from the top 200 universities. In the QS rankings this year ...
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

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Another Post on Citations (And I hope the last for a while) I think that it is clear now that the strange results for the citations indicato...
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More on the THE Citations Indicator See this comment on a previous post: As you can see from the following paragraph(http://www.timeshighere...

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Highlights from the Research Impact (Citations) Indicator One very good thing to emerge from the current round of rankings is the iphone/ipa...
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Perverse Incentives Until we get a clear statement from Thomson Reuters we have to assume that the citations indicator in the recent THE ran...
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Saturday, September 18, 2010

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More on the Citations Indicator in the THE Rankings I am copying the whole of a comment to the previous post since it might be the key to th...
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