Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Paper on Highly Cited Researchers

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Anyone interested in the evolution of global university rankings should take a look at ' Highly Cited researchers and the Shanghai Ranki...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

The Perils of Affiliation

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Five days ago I noted an open access paper  that analysed the new list of highly cited researchers published by Thomson Reuters (TR) and di...
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Thursday, July 17, 2014

The CWUR Rankings

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The Center for World University Rankings, based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has produced a global ranking of 1,000 universities. Last year and ...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Another New Highly Cited Researchers List

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Thomson Reuters have published another document, The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds , which contains the most highly cited r...
Wednesday, July 09, 2014

The Noise

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An article in Research in Higher Education by Shari Gnolek, Vincenzo Falciano and Ralph Kuncl discusses what is required for a university ...
Saturday, July 05, 2014

University Mission Creep

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The demands on Western universities appear limitless. Recently, the White House issued a plan to evaluate American universities accordin...
Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Are International Students a Good Indicator of Quality?

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From University World News "Tens of thousands of foreign students with invalid language test scores have been exposed in a groundbre...
Monday, June 30, 2014

THE Asian University Rankings

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Times Higher Education Asian University Rankings Source Scope Universities in Asia, including Southwest Asia, Turkey and Central Asia b...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

The QS BRICS Rankings

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The number and frequency of international university rankings is constantly increasing so I am starting to use a standard format. QS BRICS...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Off Topic: Should Cambridge and ICL Emulate Wayne State?

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This is from the Independent , which is supposed to be a  serious newspaper, 18 June. "British cities seeking to adapt to the realiti...
Monday, June 23, 2014

It Was the God Particle!

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The truth about Panjab University's (PU) rise in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings -- and no other -- is revealed in...
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

The New Highly Cited Researchers List

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Citations have become a standard feature of global university rankings, although they are measured in very different ways. Since 2003 the Sh...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

The Circulation of Data

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Times Higher Education has a piece about the most highly educated cities in the world. First, of course, is London, followed by Paris, Los ...
Friday, June 06, 2014

Are they having fun in Shanghai?

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Harvey Mudd College is a very expensive highly ranked private school with a strong emphasis on the teaching of engineering and technology. T...
Thursday, June 05, 2014

The World's Top Global Thinkers

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And finally the results are out. The world's leading thinker, according to a poll conducted by Prospect magazine, is the economist Armat...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Two Articles in New York Times

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Sunday's New York Times had twoarticles on international rankings. The first, by D. D. Guttenplan, is ' Re-Evaluating the College R...
Monday, June 02, 2014

What should India do about the rankings?

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India seems to be suffering from ranking fever . This is a serious problem that periodically sweeps across countries with the national media...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

The Twitter Rankings

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Coldlime, an Internet marketing company has produced rankings of British and American universities according to Twitter activity. The fiv...

Update on Alexandria University

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I recently wrote that Alexandria University might be making a comeback. There is some more evidence that this might be the case. The Leiden ...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

Global Elite Threatened by New Rivals?

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The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University has produced its annual Leiden Ranking. I hope to write something ...

Bibliography 1

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The European Journal of Education has a special free issue on university rankings. See HERE .
Friday, May 02, 2014

Under-50 Universities: Comparing THE and QS

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Times Higher Education has just released its list of new universities , those that are less than 50 years old. The top ten are: 1.   Poha...