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The role of national university rankings in an international context: the case of the I-UGR Rankings of Spanish universities | | Nicolás Robinson-García
; J.G. Moreno-Torres
; Daniel Torres-Salinas
; Emilio Delgado López-Cózar
; Francisco Herrera
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6 May 2013 | | Abstract: | The great importance international rankings have in the research policy arena
calls for caution as they present many flaws and shortcomings. One of them has
to do with the inability to accurately represent national university systems as
their original purpose is only to rank world-class universities. Another one
has to do with the lack of representativeness of universities’ disciplinary
profiles as they usually provide a unique table. Although some rankings offer a
great coverage and others offer league tables by fields, no international
ranking does both. In order to surpass such limitation from a research policy
viewpoint, this paper analyzes the possibility of using national rankings in
order to complement international rankings. For this, we describe the Spanish
university system as a study case presenting the I-UGR Rankings for Spanish
universities by fields and subfields. Then, we compare their results with those
obtained by the Shanghai Ranking, the QS Ranking and the NTU Ranking, as they
all have basic common grounds which allow such comparison. We conclude that it
is advisable to use national rankings in order to complement international
rankings, however we observe that this must be done with certain caution as
they differ on the methodology employed as well as on the construction of the
fields. | | Source: | arXiv, 1305.1216 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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