Friday, October 04, 2013

MIT and TMU are the most influential research universities in the world

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I hope to comment extensively on the new Times Higher Education - Thomson Reuters rankings in a while but for the moment here is a comment o...
Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Waiting for the Rankings

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There are hints from the twittersphere that the latest Times Higher Education - Thomson Reuters World University Rankings will have somethi...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Corruption and the Rankings?

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One of the more interesting things about the publication of the QS and Times Higher Education world rankings is the reaction of university ...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Reactions to the QS Rankings

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Once again the publication of the QS rankings has led to a mixed chorus of triumph, lamentation and soul searching. In most cases there is a...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

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The QS Rankings The QS World University Rankings top 200 have just been published. The top 800 will be released later today. The top ten...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

The Shanghai Rankings 2004-2013

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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 ye...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

The Webometrics Methodology

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Isidro F. Aguillo of Webometrics has kindly sent me a summary of the methodology: - The ranking intends to measure global performance of ...
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The Webometrics Rankings

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The July 2013 Webometrics rankings have just been published . The top five are: 1.  Harvard 2.  MIT 3.  Stanford 4.  UC Berkeley 5.  U...
Saturday, August 03, 2013

The Forbes Rankings

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Forbes has just released its Best College list , which is compiled by the Center of College Affordability and Productivity. This index ref...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Shopping Around

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It seems that many universities are now targeting specific rankings. One example is Universiti Malaya which submits data to QS but so far ha...
Friday, July 19, 2013

A bad idea but not really new

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From Times Higher Education University teachers everywhere are subject to this sort of pressure but it is unusual for it to be stated so e...
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Friday, July 12, 2013

Serious Wonkiness

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Alex Usher at HESA had a post on the recent THE Under-50 Rankings . Here is an except about the Reputation and Citations indicators. ...
Tuesday, July 02, 2013

The Complete Efficiency Rankings

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At last. Here are complete Efficiency Rankings measuring the efficiency with which universities turn inputs into citations. I am using the m...
Monday, July 01, 2013

Competition and Controversy in Global Rankings

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My article,  'Competition and Controversy in Global Rankings' can be accessed here .
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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...