Saturday, April 30, 2011

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300: The Iranian Version I have always thought that university ranking organisations are unimaginative in their choice of names. Surely th...
Friday, April 22, 2011

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Worth Reading Retraction Watch is a blog that deals with the retraction of scientific papers because of plagiarism, duplication, fabricati...

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  Second Edition The National Research Council in the US has released a new version  of its 2010 doctoral program rankings. It seems that ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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Reviewing the THE Rankings An article by Phil Baty in Times Higher Education looks at the various components of last year's THE World...
Monday, April 18, 2011

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Art Imitates Life: Update It is time to bring the unbearable suspense to an end. The first text is the April Fool's Joke. Go here . Th...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

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Art Imitates Life Which of these texts is an April Fool joke? How can you tell? Links will be posted in a few days. TEXT 1 The Federal ...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

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QS Engineering Rankings QS have started to published  detailed subject rankings based on citations per paper over five years and their su...
Monday, April 04, 2011

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First They Came For the Fire Buffs, Then They Came for the Science Nerds.... An interesting aspect of the 2009 court case brought by firem...
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Sunday, April 03, 2011

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The View from Hong Kong University World News has an article by Kevin Downing of the City University of Hong Kong. It begins: Are Asian...
Friday, April 01, 2011

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Best Grad Schools The US News Graduate School Rankings were published on March 15th. Here are the top universities in various subject are...
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Sunday, March 27, 2011

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Say It Loud Phil Baty has an article in THE, based on a speech in Hong Kong entitled 'Say it loud: I'm a ranker and I'm proud...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

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Growth of Academic Publications: Southwest Asia, 2009-2010 One of several surprises in last year's THE rankings was the absence of any...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

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Growth in Academic Publications: Southeast Asia 2009-2010 Countries ranked by percentage increase in publications in the ISI Science, Soci...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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Comparing Rankings 3: Omissions The big problem with the Asiaweek rankings of 1999-2000 was that they relied on data submitted by universi...
Monday, March 21, 2011

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QS comments on the THE Reputation Ranking In University World News , Danny Byrne from QS comments on the new THE reputation ranking. So ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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Worth Reading Ellen Hazelkorn, 'Questions Abound as the College-Rankings Race Goes Global' in Chronicle of Higher Education ...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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Bright Ideas Department This is from today's Guardian : The coalition is considering a Soviet-style central intervention policy to ef...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

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Going Global Hong Kong 2011 Speeches about rankings by Martin Davidson, British Council, Phil Baty, THE, John Molony, QS, and others can b...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

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A Bit More on the THE Reputation Rankings There is a brief article in the Guardian with a lot of comments. Incidentally, I don't se...

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The THE Reputation Rankings Times Higher Education have constructed a reputation ranking from the data collected for last year's Worl...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

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The Second Wave It seems that another wave of rankings is coming. The new edition of America's best graduate schools will be out soon,...
Tuesday, March 08, 2011

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Comment on the Paris Ranking  Ben Wildavsky in the Chronicle of Higher Education says: The Mines ParisTech ranking is an explicitly chau...
Sunday, March 06, 2011

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The Paris rankings The fifth edition of the Professional Ranking of World Universities from Paris Mines Tech has just been published. Thi...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

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Surveys and Citations I have just finished calculating the correlation between the scores for the academic survey and citations per facult...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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Reputation, reputation, reputation! As the world (or some of it) waits for the ranking survey forms to appear in its mail boxes, both THE ...