Tuesday, June 25, 2013

What about a Research Influence Ranking?

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Keeping up with the current surge of global university rankings is becoming next to impossible. Still there are  a few niches that have rema...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Bad Mood Rising

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In 2006 I tried to get an article published in the Education section of the Guardian , that fearless advocate of radical causes and scourge ...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Times Higher Education Under 50s Rankings

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Times Higher Education has now published its ranking of universities less than fifty years old. The top five are: 1.  Pohang University...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Citation Cartels

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An article by Paul Jump in Times Higher Education describes how Thomson Reuters have been excluding an increasing number of journals from ...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Uncanny Insight into Ranker Psychology

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I just said that QS would announce its Young University Rankings now that THE has indicated the launch date for its rankings at Wellington C...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Prestigious Ranking Watch

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Times Higher Education will be launching their Top 100 Under-50 Universities Rankings which, in case you have forgotten, is prestigious, a...
Monday, June 10, 2013

The QS Latin American Rankings

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The QS Latin American Rankings show some interesting variations in methodology. The academic survey has a weight of 30%, compared to 40% in...
Sunday, June 02, 2013

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The Global Gender Index Times Higher Education has just published an article on the Global Gender Index produced in collaboration with T...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

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Here is the full text of my article on the QS Subject Rankings published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.   The QS university rankings ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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The QS university rankings by subject: Warning needed My article in the Philippine Daily Inquirer can be accessed here .
Sunday, May 26, 2013

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The QS Subject Rankings: Not Everybody is Impressed The subject rankings just released by QS seem to be a shrewd marketing move. Dozens of...

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Why are they so worried? The UK HE International Unit represents the views of the British university sector and is cooperating with Times ...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

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The Efficiency Rankings Times Higher Education has a story about a study by Dirk Van Damme, head of the Centre for Educational Research ...
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Friday, May 24, 2013

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Update on IREG Approval  The International Ranking Experts group has also given its approval to the national ranking produced by the Pers...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

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The First IREG Audit  QS is the first ranking organisation to get the seal of approval from the International Ranking Experts Group (IREG...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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QS Rankings by Subject QS have produced their annual subject rankings . At the top there are no real surprises and, while there is certai...
Tuesday, May 07, 2013

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Unsolicited Advice There has  been a lot of debate  recently  about the reputation survey component in the QS World University Ranking...
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Friday, April 26, 2013

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New Report Out Global University Rankings and their Impact: Report II Andrejs Rauhvargers
Thursday, April 25, 2013

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Asian higher education revolution a long way off My article in University Worl d News can be accessed here .
Saturday, April 20, 2013

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The Leiden Ranking The Leiden ranking for 2013 is out . This is produced by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden...
Tuesday, April 02, 2013

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Combining Rankings Meta University Ranking has combined the latest ARWU, QS and THE World Rankings. Universities are ordered by place so ...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

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Some More on the THE World University Rankings 2 I have calculated the mean scores for the indicator groups in the 2012-13 Times Higher e...
Friday, March 15, 2013

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Some More on the THE World University Rankings 2012-13 Here are some observations based on a simple analysis of the Times Higher Education...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

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The California Paradox Looking at the Times Higher Education reputation rankings , I noticed that there were two Californian universit...

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Preserving data Times Higher and QS have both renovated their ranking pages recently and both seem to have removed access to some data f...