Monday, November 27, 2017

Rankings Uproar in Hong Kong

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There is a controversy brewing in Hong Kong about the submission of data to the QS World University Rankings. It seems that the City Unive...
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Friday, November 17, 2017

Another global ranking?

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In response to  suggestion by Hee Kim Poh of Nanyang Technological University, I have had a look at the Worldwide Professional University Ra...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Rankings Calendar: QS BRICS University Rankings

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The QS BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) university rankings will be announced on November 23 at the QS-APPLE conference i...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

China overtakes USA in supercomputing

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The website TOP500 keeps track of the world's most powerful computers. Six months ago the USA had 169 supercomputers in the top 500 and...

The closing gap: When will China overtake the USA in research output?

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According to the Scopus database, China produced 387,475 articles in 2016 and the USA 409,364, a gap of 21,889. To be precise, there were ...
Sunday, November 05, 2017

Ranking debate: What should Malaysia do about the rankings?

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A complicated relationship Malaysia has had a complicated relationship with global university rankings. There was a moment back in 20...
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Friday, November 03, 2017

Ranking Calendar

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Over on the right there will be a list of events such as conferences, workshops, and announcements of rankings. First is the 7th World-Cla...

Resuming Posting

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I have been busy with family and work matters recently but I shall resume posting tomorrow. I shall be adding some features that I hope wi...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

Criticism of rankings from India

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Some parts of the world seem to be increasingly sceptical of international rankings, or least those produced by Times Higher Education (THE...
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Last word, I hope, on Babol Noshirvani University of Technology

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If you type in 'Babol University of Technology" rather than 'Babol Noshirvani University of Technology' into the Scopus sea...
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Saturday, September 09, 2017

More on Babol Noshirvani University of Technology

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To answer the question in the previous post, how did Babol Noshirvani University of Technology in Iran do so well in the latest THE rankings...
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Friday, September 08, 2017

Why did Babol Noshirvani University of Technology do so well in the THE rankings?

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The THE world rankings and their regional offshoots have always been a source of entertainment mixed with a little bit of bewilderment. Ever...
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Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Highlights from THE citations indicator

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The latest THE world rankings were published yesterday. As always, the most interesting part is the field- and year- normalised citations ...
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Thursday, August 24, 2017

Milestone passed

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The previous post was the 1,000th.

Comment by Christian Scholz

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This comment is by Christian Schulz of the University of Hamburg. He points that the University of Hamburg's rise in the Shanghai rankin...

Guest Post by Pablo Achard

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This post is by Pablo Achard of the University of Geneva. It refers to  the Shanghai subject rankings. However, the problem of outliers in s...
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Friday, August 18, 2017

Comment on the 2017 Shanghai Rankings

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In the previous post I referred to the vulnerabilities that have developed in the most popular world rankings, THE, QS and Shanghai ARWU, in...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Problems with global rankings

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There is a problem with any sort of standardised testing. A test that is useful when a score has no financial or social significance becomes...
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Monday, August 14, 2017

Some implications of the Universitas 21 rankings

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Universitas 21 (U21) produces an annual ranking not of universities but of 50 national university systems. There are 25 criteria grouped in...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

The Need for a Self Citation Index

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In view of the remarkable performance of Veltech University in the THE Asian Rankings, rankers, administrators and publishers need to think ...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

The public sector: a good place for those with bad school grades

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From the E conomist ranking of British universities , which is based on the difference between expected and actual graduate earnings.  Tha...
Friday, August 11, 2017

Malaysia and the Rankings Yet Again

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Malaysia has had a complicated relationship with global university rankings. There  was a fleeting moment of glory in 2004 when Universiti M...