Friday, October 31, 2014

Initial Comments on the US News Global Rankings

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It was a bit of a surprise when US News & World Report (USNWR) announced that they were going global but perhaps it  shouldn't have ...
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Friday, October 17, 2014

The university rankings business gets bigger and bigger

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US News is going global. There are three different Arab/ MENA rankings on the way. Now, QS is getting ready for further growth. This is from...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Shanghai without the Awards

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Updated. The link to the site is here . The Center for World-Class Universities (CWU) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University has produced an in...
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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Another Global Ranking

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Just when you thought you could stop reading about rankings. For several years the US News & World Report (USNWR), publishers of Ameri...
Tuesday, October 07, 2014

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings

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Publisher Times Higher Education Scope Global. Data provided for 400 universities. Over 800 ranked. Top Ten Place University 1 C...
Saturday, October 04, 2014

How to win citations and rise in the rankings

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A large part of the academic world has either been congratulating itself on performing well in the latest Times Higher Education   ( THE) wo...
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Friday, October 03, 2014

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa: Are they dancing in the streets?

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There is a lot of coverage of that huge pocket of excellence in Italy at ROARS:Return on Academic Research . Still trying to make sense of t...

The university with more research influence than.....

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With apologies to the Sydney Morning Herald which had a headline about Caltech. I don't know if the people of Valparaiso are aware th...
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Thursday, October 02, 2014

Which universities have the greatest research influence?

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Times Higher Education   (THE) claims that its Citations:Research Influence indicator, prepared by Thomson Reuters (TR), is the flagship of ...
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...