The moderating effect of altmetrics on the correlations between single and multi-faceted university ranking systems: the case of THE and QS vs. Nature Index and Leiden

The infrastructural role of education in the social and investment model of economic growth: the specifics of emerging markets

“…This paper contributes to the ongoing scientific discussion on the issues of university management through the justification of the following directions of higher education's development: pupil-teacher ratio (in support of Pérez-Rodríguez et al, 2022;Valverde-Espinoza and Barja-Ore, 2022); mobility in higher education (in support of Lo et al, 2022;Cuzzocrea and Krzaklewska, 2023); QS university ranking (in support of Estrada-Real and Cantu-Ortiz, 2022;Moshtagh et al, 2023).…”

“…The following directions of higher education's development are distinguished in the existing literature: − University/industry research collaboration for the improved mastering of applied competencies by university students, increase in the competitiveness of university graduates in the labor market, improvement of their employment opportunities and career building and creation of applied technologies and accelerated commercialization of university innovations (Fernandes and O'Sullivan, 2023;Zhuang and Zhou, 2023); − Expenditure on education for the improvement of accessibility of higher education services, which, in particular, involves an increase in the scale of state order for the training of highly skilled and digital personnel by state-funded universities on budgetary places (Ali, 2022;Ojha et al, 2022); − Pupil-teacher ratio for improvement of the quality of higher education services that are provided by universities (Pérez-Rodríguez et al, 2022;Valverde-Espinoza and Barja-Ore, 2022); − Mobility in higher education for the free exchange of knowledge and technologies, international recognition of education diplomas, the attraction of foreign students and teachers, foreign internships, research by international scientific groups and strengthening of the international status of universities (Lo et al, 2022;Cuzzocrea and Krzaklewska, 2023); − Gross expenditure on R&D, the centers of which are universities, for the acceleration of innovative development of the economy (Su et al, 2022;Weiyu et al, 2022); − QS university ranking for strengthening of the global competitiveness of universities, which is demonstrated by their position in international university rankings, of which the QS ranking is one of the most respectable (Estrada-Real and Cantu-Ortiz, 2022;Moshtagh et al, 2023).…”

Correlation between universities’ Altmetric Attention Scores and their performance scores in Nature Index, Leiden, Times Higher Education and Quacquarelli Symonds ranking systems

“…University ranking systems follow two main simple and complicated approaches in designing their methodologies for assessing the university performances. While the approaches differ in their efficiencies, they match, to some extent, in terms of their results, which signify their relative divergence regarding the effectiveness [5][6][7][8]. In an attempt to find solutions to improve the results, this study investigated the potentials of altmetrics in mirroring the results of the ranking systems.…”

“…However, previous studies supported that the results of these two kinds of ranking systems were correlated to some extent, actually not strong enough to measure identical things and mirror identical facts [5–8]. Moreover, the indicators used in evaluating the university performances may be subject to the deficiencies, and hence the criticisms.…”