Sunday, June 13, 2021

The Remarkable Revival of Oxford and Cambridge

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There is nearly always a theme for the publication of global rankings. Often it is the rise of Asia, or parts of it. For a while it was the ...
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Sunday, June 06, 2021

The Decline of American Research

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Looking through the  data of the latest SCImago Journal and Country Rank is a sobering experience. If you just look at the data for the qua...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Energetic and Proactive Leadership or a Defective Indicator?

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It is now normal for university administrators to use global rankings to market their institutions, reward themselves and, all too often, ju...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

The sensational fall of Panjab University and the sensational coming rise*

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*If present methodology continues The Hindustan Times has a report on the fall of Panjab University (PU) in the latest THE Emerging Economi...
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Thursday, January 07, 2021

An Indisputable Ranking Scorecard? Not Really.

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The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has produced an aggregate ranking of global universities , known as ARTU. This is based on the ...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Indian University Performance to be Judged by Rankings

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I have commented on Indian responses to the rankings  before and many times on problems with the better known rankings so  I apologize for r...
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Saturday, July 25, 2020

How will the COVID-19 crisis affect the global rankings?

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My article has just been published in University World News.  You can read there and comment here.
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Monday, June 08, 2020

The Great Acceleration

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A major impact of the current virus crisis is that trends that were developing gradually have suddenly gathered new momentum. In many places...
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Thursday, May 07, 2020

Observations on the Indian Ranking Boycott

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Seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) --  Delhi, Bombay, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, and Roorkee  -- have announced that th...
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Sunday, April 19, 2020

THE's WUR 3.0 is on the way

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Alert to readers. Some of this post covers ground I have been over before. See here , here and here . I plead guilty to self-plagiarism. ...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Who's doing research on Covid-19?

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This is crude and simple.  I typed in Covid-19 with fields Article title, Abstract, Keywords. The first and oldest item of 1,500 to appear...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

University of California Riverside:Is it America's Fastest Rising University?

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Not really. It seems that one major function of rankings is to cover up the decline or stagnation of major western universities. An e...
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Friday, February 28, 2020

Polish Universities in International Rankings

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My short article on Polish universities and international rankings has just been published by Forum Akademikie. The article in Polish can be...
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