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On the illogics of the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings (2013)3 comments

globalhighered wrote 2 months ago: Note: you can link here for the Inside Higher Ed version of the same entry. ~~~~~~~~ Amidst all the … more →

Tags: Benchmarking, world university rankings, Rankings, Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, world university rankings

World University Rankings -- Time for a Name Change?3 comments

globalhighered wrote 6 months ago: I’ve often wondered if the term ‘World University Rankings’ — the one deploy … more →

Tags: Audit culture, Benchmarking, bibliometrics

Measuring Academic Research in Canada: Field-Normalized Academic Rankings 2012

globalhighered wrote 8 months ago: Greetings from Chicago where I’m about to start a meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chica … more →

Tags: Canada, citation indices

Towards a Global Common Data Set for World University Rankers11 comments

globalhighered wrote 11 months ago: Last week marked another burst of developments in the world university rankings sector, including tw … more →

Tags: Audit culture, Benchmarking, bibliometrics, Rankings, world university rankings

The Business Side of World University Rankings5 comments

globalhighered wrote 1 year ago: Over the last two years I’ve made the point numerous times here that world university rankings … more →

Tags: Audit culture, bibliometrics, world university rankings, Thomson-Reuters, Times Higher Education, Times Higher World University Rankings, world university rankings

Why now? Making markets via the THE World Reputation Rankings15 comments

globalhighered wrote 1 year ago: The 2012 Times Higher Education (THE) World Reputation Rankings were released at 00.01 on 15 March b … more →

Tags: University rankings, Audit culture, Benchmarking, bibliometrics, Rankings, world university rankings, Times Higher Education World University Rankings, World Reputation rankings

On being seduced by The World University Rankings (2011-12)14 comments

globalhighered wrote 1 year ago: Well, it’s ranking season again, and the Times Higher Education/Thomson Reuters World University Ran … more →

Tags: OECD, Thomson-Reuters, Academic Ranking of World Universities, arwu, AHELO, U-Multirank

'Hotspots' and international scientific collaboration1 comment

globalhighered wrote 1 year ago: The OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2011: Innovation and Growth in Knowledge Econom … more →

Tags: R&D, regional development, Science & Technology, Biotechnology, Brazil, Internationalization, OECD, OECD Science, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Field-specific cultures of international research collaboration1 comment

globalhighered wrote 2 years ago: Editors’ note: how can we better understand and map out the phenomenon of international resear … more →

Tags: Audit culture, bibliometrics, R&D, arwu, Asian Ranking of World Universities, Collaboration, ISI Web of Knowledge, scientific collaboration, Scopus

Governing world university rankers: an agenda for much needed reform4 comments

globalhighered wrote 2 years ago: Is it now time to ensure that world university rankers are overseen, if not governed, so as to achie … more →

Tags: University rankings, citation indices, Audit culture, bibliometrics, Thomson-Reuters, world university rankings, QS World University Rankings, THE world university rankings

Rankings: a case of blurry pictures of the academic landscape?2 comments

globalhighered wrote 2 years ago: Editors’ note: this guest entry has been kindly contributed by Pablo Achard (University of Gen … more →

Tags: University rankings, Audit culture, Global and Regional Benchmarks/Indexes, bibliometrics, Academic Ranking of World Universities, arwu, Rankings, world university rankings, QS World University Rankings

Graphic feed: visualization of national origins of THE World University Ranking top 100 (2010)4 comments

globalhighered wrote 2 years ago: Source: many eyes, 16 September 2010 … more →

Tags: University rankings, Benchmarking, bibliometrics

The 2010 THE World University Rankings, powered by Thomson Reuters3 comments

globalhighered wrote 2 years ago: The new 2010 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings issue has just been released and … more →

Tags: Audit culture, Benchmarking, bibliometrics, citation indices, 2010 world university rankings, Rankings, THE world university rankings, Times Higher Education, University rankings

A case for free, open and timely access to world university rankings data4 comments

globalhighered wrote 2 years ago: Well, the 2010 QS World University Rankings® were released last week and the results are continuing … more →

Tags: University rankings, Audit culture, Benchmarking, bibliometrics, Harvard University, Cambridge University, Thomson-Reuters, college rankings, Times Higher Education

Are we witnessing the denationalization of the higher education media?3 comments

globalhighered wrote 2 years ago: The denationalization of higher education – the process whereby developmental logics, frames, and pr … more →

Tags: News Sources, media, Kaplan, higher education media, Washington Post, Thomson-Reuters, Chronicle of Higher Education, Times Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed

Bibliometrics, global rankings, and transparency7 comments

globalhighered wrote 2 years ago: Why do we care so much about the actual and potential uses of bibliometrics (“the generic term for d … more →

Tags: Audit culture, Benchmarking, bibliometrics, University rankings, Academic Ranking of World Universities, elsevier, Evidence Ltd, ISI Web of Knowledge, Nature

Graphic feed: launching the Global Institutional Profiles Project

globalhighered wrote 3 years ago: Source: Thomson Reuters, 6 January 2010. … more →

Tags: Audit culture, Benchmarking, bibliometrics, University rankings, Thomson-Reuters, Rankings, Times Higher Education

Developments in world institutional rankings; SCImago joins the club1 comment

globalhighered wrote 3 years ago: Editor’s note: this guest entry was kindly written by Gavin Moodie, principal policy adviser o … more →

Tags: Audit culture, Academic Ranking of World Universities, arwu, bibliometrics, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CIA, CNRS, elsevier, SCImago

THE-QS World University Rankings 2009: Year 6 of market making12 comments

globalhighered wrote 3 years ago: Well, an email arrived today and I just could not help myself…I clicked on the THE-QS World Un … more →

Tags: bibliometrics, QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd., THE-QS rankings, THE-QS World University Rankings 2009, Times Higher Education Supplement rankings, Times Higher Education-QS World University Ranking, Times Higher World University Rankings


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