(25 June 2015) The U.S. Department of Education has retreated from its controversial plan to create a giant college-ratings system, top officials revealed on Wednesday. Instead, by late summer the department is now promising to produce a customizable, consumer-oriented website that won’t include any evaluations of colleges but will contain what one official described as…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (11 June 2015) The existing rankings that we examined in articles 5 to 11 are not designed for the mass market of undergraduate students. Even THE and QS, which include a broader range of metrics, and Webometrics and Altmetrics, which focus on alternative measures, are still primarily tools for policy makers…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (20 May 2015) The 1983 appearance of the US News & World Report “Best Colleges in America,” which focused on inputs and was designed for student decision making, started the rankings frenzy in the U.S. When university rankings went global, the magazine published its first “Rankings of World’s Best Colleges” (Morse,…
Report and survey provide insider’s view into the various components that determine a university’s global academic reputation (12 May 2015, Philadelphia) The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the launch of its 2015 Academic Reputation Survey and new report, “Exploring Scholarly Trends…
By Ruth A. Pagell1 (7 May 2015) There is a famous English poem called the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner with a more famous line: ‘water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink’. Similarly, we are drowning in rankings. There are rankings, rankings everywhere nor any one that fits. In this series we have looked…
(29 April 2015) The National University of Singapore (NUS) has been placed among the world’s 10 best universities for 11 subjects across disciplines in architecture/built environment, engineering, science, and the social sciences, according to the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject. The University is also Asia’s best across 21 subjects, up from 18 subjects…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (31 March 2015) “…there is a growing movement within the scientific establishment to better measure and reward all the different ways that people contribute to the messy and complex process of scientific progress.” Arbesman (2012), Wired. The rankings we examined in Ruth’s Rankings 5, 6, 7 and 8 are grounded in…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (27 February 2015) Question: What do Tokyo University, Kyoto University of Education, Tsinghua University, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia) and Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences all have in common? Answer: Using different sources and different metrics, they are all number one in higher education depending on the metric.…
By Ruth A. Pagell* 12 Asian institutions are in the top 50 worldwide and 3 Asian countries are in the top 10 for publishing articles in the “best” journals. Ruth’s Rankings 7 and 8 follow up on previous rankings by looking at other methodologies that drill further down into scholarly output and provide different options…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (26 December 2014) I began researching the intersection of bibliometrics and university research rankings in preparation for a talk I presented at CONCERT, CONsortium on Core Electronic Resources in Taiwan in 2008. At that time, there were only 74 articles in all of Web of Science (WOS) about bibliometrics or citations…
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