Why does the USA dominate university league tables?

Li, Mei; Shankar, Sriram; Tang, Kam Ki

doi:10.1080/03075079.2010.482981

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“…Chen and Liao (2012) view the university rankings having carried the competition among universities from an under the table to a paper-based one forming some kind of criteria for measuring educational quality for their various stakeholders. The prior literature (Safon, 2013;Docampo, 2011;Li et al, 2011;Usher and Savino, 2006) points out the existence of a hidden factor in the most influential rankings that has not much to do with quality. In an attempt to determine the hidden factor, Safon (2013) investigated the two most influential global university rankings and concluded that rankings do not have the capacity to assess university quality in all dimensions however they do have different conceptions of university quality.…”

Section: Rising Trend Of Rankings In Measuring Higher Education Qualitymentioning

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Is measuring the knowledge creation of universities possible?: A review of university rankings

Olcay

Bulu

2017

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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University ranking indexes are considered very useful benchmarking tools in comparing the performance of universities around the world. Being placed in these prestigious indexes provides a strong advertisement for a university and helps them to attract high-quality students and academicians all over the world. However, there are some important deficiencies of university ranking indexes such as taking into account the whole university as a single unit without differentiating according to different fields of study or research, being limited to some wellknown universities, and not considering institutional characteristics such as size or age. This study aims to explore the leading global university rankings to determine the similarities and differences in terms of their ranking criteria, main indicators, modeling choices, and the effects of these on the rankings. Designating the Times Higher Education World Rankings as the base ranking, a comprehensive comparison of the positions of the top universities of the base index with the matched positions of the same universities under other leading indexes including ARWU, QS, Leiden, and URAP is given. Correlations highlight the significant differences among some indexes even in measuring the same criterion such as teaching or research.

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Section: Rising Trend Of Rankings In Measuring Higher Education Qualitymentioning

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Is measuring the knowledge creation of universities possible?: A review of university rankings

Olcay

Bulu

2017

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

124

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“…In addition, the schools that are top-ranked have more applications, higher yield rates, and thus lower acceptance rates . This situation has led to these universities and also their countries gaining prestige (Jesensek, 2006;Li, Shankar & Tang, 2011). Rankings are also increasingly being used as a policy instrument to assess the performance of institutions by government agencies (Salmi & Saroyan 2007;Sponsler 2009).…”

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A Review on the Major Global University Ranking Systems and the Turkish Universities’ Overall Position in Rankings

Aydin¹

2017

Educational Administration: Theory and Practice

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Amidst the increasingly competitive environment in the field of higher education, world ranking systems have gained more research attention in recent years. In this article, the main objectives are to attract attention of especially Turkish academics and policy makers to university ranking systems in the world and to show the overall position of Turkish universities in these ranking systems. With this aim, the major rankings were specially examined in terms of their measurements from the original websites of them. As a result of this review, the position of Turkish universities among the top 500 universities in these rankings over a six-year period are determined from 2011 to 2016; then, obtained data through the original websites of these ranking systems and the reports of the URAP are compiled and presented in tables. Two issues can be observed from the study: research performance is one of the major indicators used in all world ranking systems, and the overall position of Turkish universities in such rankings is not very good. This article can help all staff in academia provide the better understand the goals, importance and measurements of ranking systems and Turkish Universities' position in these rankings. Thus, the study tries to create awareness about the need of improving their position. After this paper, the further research is likely to examine the concept of research performance as an important criterion of determining the universities' position in the major world rankings to obtain a broad and comprehensive perspective. ÖzYükseköğrenim alanında giderek artan rekabetçi ortam etkisiyle son yıllarda üniversite sıralama sistemleri üzerine olan araştırmalar oldukça önem kazandı. Bu makale, özellikle Türkiye'deki akademisyenlerin ve bu konuda söz sahibi yöneticilerin, uluslararası üniversite sıralama sistemleri üzerine dikkatlerini çekmeyi ve Türk üniversitelerinin bu sıralamalardaki konumunu ortaya koymayı amaçlanmıştır. Bu bağlamda, dünyadaki en önemli sıralama sistemleri kendi internet sitelerinden özellikle ölçütleri açısından incelenmiştir. Bu inceleme sonucunda, 2011'den başlayarak 2016 yılına kadar 6 yıllık bir dönemde üniversitelerimizin bu sıralamalarda ilk 500'deki yeri, her sıralama sisteminin orijinal web sitesinden ve URAP raporlarından elde edilen veriler derlenerek tablolar halinde sunulmuştur. Bu çalışma sonucunda özellikle iki bulgu dikkate değer bulunmuştur. Birincisi, incelenen altı sıralama sisteminde de araştırma performansının ne denli önemli bir ölçüt olduğu; ikincisi ise üniversitelerimizin bu sıralamalarda çok da iyi bir pozisyonda olmadığıdır. Bu araştırma, akademiyle ilgilenen tüm paydaşlara üniversite sıralama sistemlerinin amaçlarını, önemini, ölçütlerini göstermeyi ve üniversitelerimizin uluslararası sıralamalardaki konumunu anlamaları hususunda onlara yardımcı olmayı hedeflemiştir. Böylelikle, çalışmanın, üniversitelerimizin konumunun iyileştirilmesinin gerekliliği hususunda bir farkındalık oluşturması beklenmektedir. Bir sonraki araştırmamızda, birçok sıralama sist...

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“…Whilst media ownership remains largely in the control of a few, the dynamics of power for stakeholders to influence through technology are clear. Global events such as the Arab Spring (Stepanova, 2011), US elections (Vaccari, 2010), the heightened use of quantitative tables (Li et al, 2011) and locally reporting global news (Cottle, 2011) exemplify this. As a result, the presence of advanced communication platforms such as the Internet, Twitter and Facebook, along with increasingly sophisticated databases and software for informing policy formation, has become more a necessity rather than choice.…”

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Rethinking the Future of Europe

Schepers¹,

Kakabadse²

2014

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Why does the USA dominate university league tables?

Cited by 45 publications

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Is measuring the knowledge creation of universities possible?: A review of university rankings

Is measuring the knowledge creation of universities possible?: A review of university rankings

A Review on the Major Global University Ranking Systems and the Turkish Universities’ Overall Position in Rankings

Rethinking the Future of Europe

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