World university rankings: What they say international studies?

Como decidir em qual universidade devo realizar a graduação? Qual universidade parece mais bem preparada para desenvolver este projeto com o governo? Quais ações devem ser implementadas para melhorar o desempenho de nossa universidade? Os rankings universitários emergem subsidiando informações sobre o posicionamento das universidades com base em um conjunto de indicadores. Assim, o objetivo desta pesquisa é conhecer as publicações internacionais sobre o tema “rankings universitários” que possibilitem identificar as bases metodológicas adotadas pelos principais rankings existentes. A seleção das publicações foi realizada por meio do instrumento de intervenção Proknow-C que identificou 34 artigos nas bases de dados Web of Science e Scopus alinhados ao tema. Com base na análise do Portfólio Bibliográfico (PB), constatou-se que a ideia de rankings universitários remonta ao ano de 1880, embora os 20 rankings da atualidade tenham sido desenvolvidos a partir de 1983 e possuem objetivos diversos, tais como: qualidade do ensino, qualidade da pesquisa e trabalhos científicos, garantia de mercado de trabalho ao aluno, excelência nos programas de pós-graduação, excelência da universidade pelo desempenho geral, visibilidade da instituição na internet, entre outros. As principais críticas estão relacionadas aos objetivos, indicadores e à metodologia utilizadaHow to decide which university I hold graduation? Which university seems better prepared to develop this project with the government? Actions to be implemented to improve the performance of our university? College rankings emerge subsidizing information about the positioning of universities based on a set of indicators. The objective of this research is to know the international publications on the subject "university rankings" that make it possible to identify the methodological bases adopted by major existing rankings. The selection of publications was performed by the Proknow-C intervention instrument which identified that 34 articles in the databases Web of Science and Scopus aligned to the theme. Based on the analysis of the PB, it was found that the idea of university rankings dating back to 1880, although the 20 current rankings have been developed since 1983 and have several objectives such as: quality of teaching, research quality and scientific research, labor market guarantee the student, excellence in graduate programs, excellence of the university for the overall performance, the institution's visibility on the internet and others. The main criticisms are related to the objectives, indicators and the methodology use

RANKINGS UNIVERSITÁRIOS MUNDIAIS: ANÁLISE DA CONGRUÊNCIA ENTRE OBJETIVOS E INDICADORES

The international character of higher education takes students, universities and governments have a growing interest in knowing the position of universities compared to others in the global context. The rankings are attractive as they provide this information. However, each of the rankings developed makes use of indicators and metrics of measurement defined according to the purpose for which it was created. This work aims to investigate, based on scientific publications, if there is congruence between the indicators used by university rankings with the objectives for which the ranking was developed. For this search was conducted for scientific articles in web basis of Science and SCOPUS, which resulted in 25 articles were then examined. This is a bibliographic research, qualitative in nature, based on secondary data. So, first we identified the rankings presented by the work, and only analyzed those who appeared in four or more jobs: ARWU; THES; HEEACT; CWTS; Webometrics; SCImago; QS; America's Best College. Based on the analysis, it was found that the analyzed rankings, which presented their indicators, all present alignment of indicators and targets, although some cases are generic and superficial way