« Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) has asked our expert group for an opinion on issues associated with university rankings in relation to Recognition & Rewards (R&R), a national
programme in the Netherlands that aims to more broadly recognise and reward the work of
academic staff (for more details…
« You may have heard: Utrecht University has not been included in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking 2024.
Too much stress on competition
UU has chosen not to submit data. A conscious choice:
– Rankings put too much stress on scoring and competition, while we want to…
« Dutch universities will take a more critical stance towards global university rankings. These ‘league tables’ have methodological shortcomings and their assessment of the research achievements of universities is too one-sided, being based on the number of publications and citations. This is at odds with the Recognition & Rewards programme, through…
« L’édition 2023 du QS World University Ranking (1), classant 1422 établissements implantés dans plus de 90 pays, est parue ce mercredi 8 juin.
Comme l’an passé, le classement QS 2023 comprend 32 établissements français. 6 d’entre eux se situent dans le TOP 200 (5 dans le QS 2022), 4…
« The Internet has enabled efficient electronic publishing of scholarly journals and Open Access business models. Recent studies have shown that adoption of Open Access journals has been uneven across scholarly disciplines, where the business and economics disciplines in particular seem to lag behind all other fields of research. Through bibliometric…
« This paper provides an overview of scholarly publication channel lists and contributes with a set of recommendations for the construction and maintenance of national lists of scholarly journals and publishers in order to safeguard a balanced representation. (…)
This study is structured as follows: first, we present an overview…
« No single metric of faculty scholarly activity can fully capture every individual contribution. For that reason, evaluating a single professor’s scholarly work requires a nuanced, multifaceted, and individually focused assessment. However, for a contemporary sketch of the collective scholarly impact of a law school faculty, citation measurements in the legal…
« Universities are increasingly evaluated, both internally and externally on the basis of their outputs. Often these are converted to simple, and frequently contested, rankings based on quantitative analysis of those outputs. These rankings can have substantial implications for student and staff recruitment, research income and perceived prestige of a university.…
« Chaque année, les rankings des universités fleurissent, suscitant le même émoi que la parution des grands guides gastronomiques. Qui sera dans le « top 50 » ? Avons-nous progressé ? Où en sont les universités voisines (amies, néanmoins concurrentes) ? Ces interrogations agitent les responsables des établissements d’enseignement supérieur. (…)
« Frédérique Vidal a pris connaissance de l’édition 2018 du classement de Shanghai, qui distingue 500 établissements parmi les 17 000 répertoriés dans le monde.
Cette nouvelle édition confirme la tendance de ces dernières années pour les établissements français : la France se situe, comme l’an passé, à la 6e position…
