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Category: Rankings

Bibliometrics: Who’s the Best?

Today, we released the full version of our bibliometric paper, showing H-index averages on a discipline-by-discipline basis. You can find it here. (Keep in mind while reading it that the H-index isn’t a wholly straightforward statistic to interpret. If one discipline has an H-index of 10 and another has an H-index of five, you can’t simply say that professors in one discipline publish twice as much as the other. An H-index is just the largest number of publications for which

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June 13, 2012 1 Comment

Bibliometrics: Canada’s Top Ten Science Faculties

We promise fun bibliometric data, we deliver fun bibiometric data. Today: we show you how to use H-index data to identify the top ten science faculties in Canada. As we saw yesterday, science has the highest average H-index of any field; the average Canadian science professor has an H-index of 10.6. Recall that the H-index is the largest number of publications for which one also has at least the same number of citations – five papers with at least five

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June 12, 2012 2 Comments

A Global Common Data Set

My colleague Kris Olds recently had an interesting point about the business model behind the Times Higher Education’s (THE) world university rankings. Since 2009 data collection for the rankings has been done by Thomson Reuters. This data comes from three sources. One is bibliometric analysis, which Thomson can do on the cheap because it owns the Web of Science database. The second is a reputational survey of academics. And the third is a survey of institutions, in which schools themselves provide

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June 4, 2012 1 Comment

Ranking Higher Education Systems

As you may know, a new ranking of national systems of higher education was released a couple of weeks ago. The ranking was put together by a team of Monash University professors led by Ross Williams, and published by the Melbourne Institute and Universitas 21, a global alliance of 24 research intensive universities. It’s not the first attempt to rank national systems – we here at HESA have done two iterations of a global ranking on affordability and accessibility – but

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May 15, 2012 1 Comment

Autonomy, Quality and World-Class Universities

My colleague Pam Marcucci and I have been spending some time in Jakarta recently on a USAID project relating to improving the country’s higher education system. One of the key issues the project is facing is that of “autonomy.” If you read the policy literature on higher education, you’ll know that university autonomy is seen as a kind if sine qua non of educational quality: you can’t really have a great university without it. The first paragraph of pretty much

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April 25, 2012 No Comments

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