University rankings need a rethink | Nature World View

by Elizabeth Gadd

World league tables for higher education are flawed, poorly used and entrench inequity.

Researchers often complain about the indicators that hiring and grant committees use to judge them. In the past ten years, initiatives such as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment and the Leiden Manifesto have pushed universities to rethink how and when to use publications and citations to assess research and researchers.