Tuesday, September 30, 2014

What good is reputation?

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There is an excellent analysis by Alex Usher of Higher Education Strategy Associates of the reputation indicators in the THE and QS world r...
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Monday, September 29, 2014

Ranking Status Wars

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It looks like Times Higher Education is pulling ahead of QS in the ranking status war. From Asahi Shimbun in Japan: "Only the Un...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

How the Universities of Huddersfield, East London, Plymouth, Salford, Central Lancashire et cetera helped Cambridge overtake Harvard in the QS rankings

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It is a cause of pride for the great and the good of British higher education that the country's universities  do brilliantly in certain...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Using Ig Nobel awards for ranking countries

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Since 1991 Improbable Research has awarded prizes for research that makes people laugh and then think. Highlights this year include dung be...

The Uses of Rankings

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It is getting difficult to avoid university rankings. They seem to be everywhere, with advertisements in railway stations in the English Mid...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Reactions to the QS Rankings 2014

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Here is a selection of headlines and quotations about the latest QS world rankings from around the world. 'Australian National Univers...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

QS World University Rankings 2014

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Publisher QS ( Quacquarelli Symonds) Scope Global. 701+ universities. Top Ten Place University 1 MIT 2= Cambridge 2= Imperial C...
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Monday, September 15, 2014

What makes a world-class university?

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According to Times Higher Education , a world-class university, one that is in the top 200 of the THE World University Rankings: has a l...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

The British Paradox

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Times Higher Education , reporting on the latest OECD education report , says, "The UK is ranked relatively low among the most develo...
Friday, September 12, 2014

U-Multirank – A university ranking evaluation

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My article on U-Multirank can be found in the latest University World News .
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

The Only Ranking You'll Ever Need

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The Onion , which is looking more and more like a dull chronicle of everyday life in the US, has just published its 2014 University rankings...

America's Best Colleges

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The US News & World Report's America's Best Colleges has just been published. There are no surprises at the top. Here are the ...
Sunday, September 07, 2014

Scottish Independence and the Rankings

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What happens if Scotland votes yes for independence? Forget about Trident, currency union, North Sea oil and how many crosses there will b...
Friday, September 05, 2014

Problems with Green Rating

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More evidence that self-submitted data for university rankings is not a good idea comes from Inside Higher Ed . An article by Ry Rivard rep...
Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Going on Twitter

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As the ranking season gets under way, with America's Best Colleges, the QS world rankings, the THE world rankings and various spin-offs ...
Monday, September 01, 2014

More on Affiliation

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Recently, there has been a lot of finger wagging about King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, signing up highly cited researchers as secon...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

The Shanghai Rankings Part 2

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The Shanghai Rankings have had a reputation for reliability and consistency. The latest rankings have, however, undermined that reputation a...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

The Shanghai Rankings (Academic Ranking of World Universities) 2014 Part 1

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Publisher Center for World-Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong  University Scope Global. 500 institutions. Methodology See ARWU...
Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Webometrics: Ranking Web of Universities 2nd 2014 Edition

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The Webometrics rankings are based on web-derived data. They cover more than 22,000 institutions, far more than conventional rankings, and ...
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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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