¿Qué es lo que realmente miden las clasificaciones globales de universidades?

¿Vale la pena tomarse interés en las clasificaciones internacionales? • ¿De verdad miden algo? • En su caso, ¿qué miden? • ¿Tiene interés lo que miden? • ¿Pueden ser útiles para informar la política científica de las instituciones? • ¿Cómo combinar la información que aportan los rankings con otros datos bibliométricos institucionales?Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortiu

¿Qué es lo que realmente miden las clasificaciones globales de universidades?

¿Vale la pena tomarse interés en las clasificaciones internacionales? • ¿De verdad miden algo? • En su caso, ¿qué miden? • ¿Tiene interés lo que miden? • ¿Pueden ser útiles para informar la política científica de las instituciones? • ¿Cómo combinar la información que aportan los rankings con otros datos bibliométricos institucionales?Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortiu

¿Qué es lo que realmente miden las clasificaciones globales de universidades?

¿Vale la pena tomarse interés en las clasificaciones internacionales? • ¿De verdad miden algo? • En su caso, ¿qué miden? • ¿Tiene interés lo que miden? • ¿Pueden ser útiles para informar la política científica de las instituciones? • ¿Cómo combinar la información que aportan los rankings con otros datos bibliométricos institucionales?Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortiu

Finance journal rankings : A paper affiliation methodology

Finance journal rankings are a key factor when deciding where to publish and what to read. Despite their great development in recent years, rankings are still not sufficiently precise or updated with sufficient frequency. In this paper, we employ a new methodology called 'paper affiliation index' to produce finance journal rankings, using research impact metrics and, indirectly, expert knowledge. Both of these are based on secondary, objective measures in our approach. This makes it possible to produce lists every year without human manipulation at virtually no cost. We compare our methodology with the approaches that dominate the creation of finance journal rankings and present a new ranking with 65 journals

The new Highly cited researchers list from Thomson Reuters and the Shanghai Ranking: Spain’s position and university map

One of the products of Thomson-Reuters is the list of highly cited researchers, which became more important when it was incorporated into the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities. Scores on the Shanghai Ranking  HiCi indicator are related to the number of highly cited researchers (HCR) by university. In the 2013 edition, methodological changes have been made in listing highly cited authors. The main aim of this paper is to analyze these changes and the new HCR distribution by country. The paper also lists the new HCR from Spain. At the national level, Spain increased its global representation to 2.52% and at the institutional level 23 universities are scored on the HiCi indicator, helping to configure a new map of research excellence. The paper concludes with a preliminary assessment of the impact of the new lists on the position of Spain’s universities in the Shanghai ranking

Efecto de la agregación de universidades españolas en el Ranking de Shanghai (ARWU): caso de las comunidades autónomas y los campus de excelencia

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) or Shanghai Ranking is a de facto standard to determine the position of universities worldwide. Improving ranking positions has become the goal of universities and governments. No wonder therefore that the aggregation of universities in Spain is nowadays suggested as a means to raise the international profile of our university system. In this context, the goal of this study was to test two potential groupings, universities belonging to the same Autonomous Community and campuses of international excellence (CEIs), to determine the ARWU placement that would result. To compute the ARWU indicators of these possible groupings, we used the methodology developed in Docampo (2012b). The results of our analysis clearly show the difficulty of improving ranking positions by calculating the sum of aggregated institutions. As a matter of fact, the only way to place a university cluster from Spain in the top 100 would be to treat all of the Catalan universities as a single institution. The next best ranking for Spain would be achieved by the Habitat 5U (universities of Comunidad Valenciana), BKC (Barcelona and Politècnica de Catalunya) and VLC/Campus (Valencia and Politécnica de Valencia), CEIs which would lie in the 150-200 range