Ranking institutions within a university based on their scientific performance: A percentile-based approach

Zornić, Nikola; Bornmann, Lutz; Maričić, Milica; Marković, Aleksandar; Martić, Milan; Jeremić, Veljko

doi:10.3145/epi.2015.sep.05

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“…For this section of the work, papers published between 2009 and 2014 were scrutinized since this analysis requires a three-year window for the analysis to provide meaningful results. 20 The dataset obtained was augmented by assigning each of the 13 702 papers to institutions within the University of Belgrade (31 faculties and 11 institutes). Since a paper can be the result of collaboration between faculties and institutes within the UB, such papers are affiliated to all institutions that participated in its authorship.…”

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“…Others 19 have turned their attention to the research potential of selected Russian universities at the level of departments and academic staff. In-depth analysis 20 has also been presented on the publication performance of the 31 faculties and 11 institutes which constitute the University of Belgrade. Further, authors 21 have presented additional insight into the faculties belonging to the University of Belgrade.…”

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Evaluating the scientific performance of institutions within the university: An example from the University of Belgrade leading institutions

Pilčević¹,

Jeremić²,

Vujošević

2018

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Numerous studies have evaluated the publication performance of universities worldwide, but studies examining intra-institutional performance still remain scarce. In this paper, as a case study, we provide an in-depth quantitative-qualitative analysis of University of Belgrade (UB) leading institutions performance. The results show that the UB scientific institutes, faculties of sciences and mathematics, together with the Faculty of Medicine and several faculties of technology and engineering sciences exhibit excellent scientific results. The Faculty of Medicine and Institute Vinča lead the way in terms of number of published papers, while Institute of Physics excels when taking into account the quality of journals. Results pointed out that the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, besides the number of papers, has a strong showing in terms of citation metrics. In addition, using a network graph we present collaboration patterns within the UB. This analysis may be a step in the right direction towards a model for evaluating and ranking institutions within a particular university.

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Evaluating the scientific performance of institutions within the university: An example from the University of Belgrade leading institutions

Pilčević¹,

Jeremić²,

Vujošević

2018

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“…One of the possible future directions of study is to integrate more advanced bibliometric indicators such as percentile-based indicators which are based on citation count (Bornmann & Mutz, 2014;Zornic et al, 2015). Recent bibliometric research labelled percentiles as a new method suitable for the normalization of citation counts of publications in terms of subject category (Bornmann, 2013).…”

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ARWU vs. Alternative ARWU Ranking: What are the Consequences for Lower Ranked Universities?

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Decision makers and government representatives use numbers in the process of policy making in various spheres of life (Porter, 1995). Higher education is just one of thoe that saw the introduction of scores into its assessment methods through university rankings (Daraio & Bonaccorsi, 2017). Since 2003 and the first global university ranking, the university rankings have proliferated. The three world-acknowledged and most often analysed rankings are the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), the Times Higher Education (THE), and the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking (QS). However, these rankings led to the creation of dozens separate rankings and subrankings: by region, by subject, by field and so on (Hazelkorn & Gibson, 2016). This information goes to show several facts: that there is a need for university rankings, that their scope is changing, and that university rankings have become a serious industry (Hazelkorn & Gibson, 2016). Therefore, the conclusion can be made that university rankings are here to stay (Nature News, 2007). Throughout the years, institutions that publish university rankings aimed to answer the needs of students, on one hand, and the needs of universities, on the other hand. One such case is the case of the Alternative ARWU ranking. Namely, the ARWU ranking tends to take into account the prestige of the institution by including indicators such as the number of alumni and staff who received the Nobel Prize or the Fields Medal. However, it is tough for an institution to receive any of them. On the other hand, if a university receives one of the two prestigious awards, its rank skyrockets in the next edition of the ranking. For example, the Toulouse School of Economics received its first Nobel prize in 2014 in Economic sciences and entered the ARWU ranking straight into group 201-300 in 2015. Similarly, the London School of Economics received its first Nobel Prize in 2010 and went from group 201-302 to group 102-150. Also, once a university has received the Nobel Prize or Fields Medal its rank position improves and stays constant for a certain period of time (Piro & Sivertsen, 2016). Many universities worldwide pointed such situations out to the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy and suggested an alternative ranking without the Award Factor (Alumni and Award indicators) (ARWU, 2014). Their valuable observation led to the creation of the Alternative ARWU ranking.

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“…In this same line, international rankings have prioritised the research dimension of universities in their calculations based on the use of objective ranking criteria from bibliometric sources on journal impact factors and citation metrics (Abramo;Cicero;D'Angelo, 2013). In order to advance in these rankings, authorities expect their academic staff to increase publishing in refereed journals (McGrail;Rickard;Jones, 2006), implicating a change in the university governance model with the application of the "publish or perish" approach for academic staff (Zornic et al, 2015). International rankings do not analyse efficiency in the production of research outcomes nor offer information regarding resource allocation strategies to improve overall efficiency of a particular higher education system.…”

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How efficient are universities at publishing research? A data envelopment analysis of Spanish state universities

Expósito¹,

Velasco‐Morente²

2018

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Ranking institutions within a university based on their scientific performance: A percentile-based approach

Abstract: After graduation in 2013 at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, he got his MSc at the same Faculty, where he specialized in business intelligence and decision making. In 2014, he enrolled in a post-graduate program at the same Faculty, where he is specializing in business statistics.

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Evaluating the scientific performance of institutions within the university: An example from the University of Belgrade leading institutions

Evaluating the scientific performance of institutions within the university: An example from the University of Belgrade leading institutions

ARWU vs. Alternative ARWU Ranking: What are the Consequences for Lower Ranked Universities?

How efficient are universities at publishing research? A data envelopment analysis of Spanish state universities

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