Ruth’s Rankings 6. Scholarly Rankings from the Asian Perspective | librarylearningspace.com

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-12-29

Summary:

"I began researching the intersection of bibliometrics and university research rankings in preparation for a talk I presented at CONCERT, CONsortium on Core Electronic Resources in Taiwan in 2008.  At that time, there were only 74 articles in all of Web of Science (WOS) about bibliometrics or citations and universities and research rankings. In the past six years, the number of articles has more than tripled. In 2008, there were only three world-ranking options: the commercial THE-QS World University Rankings; the groundbreaking Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU); and the rankings from HEEACT, the Higher Education Evaluation and Assessment Council of Taiwan. We will be featuring at least10 different options in this series. Last month in Ruth’s Rankings 5, we examined what are now the two highly recognized commercial global rankings which are headquartered in the UK, THE and QS.  This month we shift our attention to two rankings from Asian institutions that apply quantitative scholarly metrics: the Academic Ranking of World Universities from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (ARWU) and Performance Ranking of Academic Papers now complied and published by the National University of Taiwan (NTU) Rankings There are similarities in the purpose of these rankings but not in the metrics.  Both measure academic performance and both use Thomson Reuters data.  Both methodologies favor institutions in the sciences and both have separate rankings for different scientific disciplines. Only the metric for research output, measured by articles in WOS, is similar.  We will compare the two on methodology, content and rankings for the world and Asia, excluding the Middle East ..."

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Date tagged:

12/29/2014, 15:59

Date published:

12/29/2014, 10:59