Graphic feed: launching Tenurometer© or, audit culture and the mining of Google Scholar

Source: Tenurometer © 2009 Diep Thi Hoang & Fil Menczer, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington

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Developments in world institutional rankings; SCImago joins the club

Editor’s note: this guest entry was kindly written by Gavin Moodie, principal policy adviser of Griffith University in Australia.  Gavin (pictured to the right) is most interested in the relations between vocational and higher education. His book From Vocational to Higher Education: An International Perspective was published by McGraw-Hill last year. Gavin’s entry sheds light [...]

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QS.com Asian University Rankings: niches within niches…within…

Today, for the first time, the QS Intelligence Unit published their list of the top 100 Asian universities in their QS.com Asian University Rankings.
There is little doubt that the top performing universities have already added this latest branding to their websites, or that Hong Kong SAR will have proudly announced it has three universities in [...]

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Regional content expansion in Web of Science®: opening borders to exploration

Editor’s note: this guest entry was written by James Testa, Senior Director, Editorial Development & Publisher Relations, Thomson Reuters. It was originally published on an internal Thomson Reuters website. James Testa (pictured to the left) joined Thomson Reuters (then ISI) in 1983. From 1983 through 1996 he managed the Publisher Relations Department and was directly [...]

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European ambitions: towards a ‘multi-dimensional global university ranking’

Further to our recent entries on European reactions and activities in relationship to global rankings schemes:

International university rankings, classifications & mappings – a view from the European University Association
The global obsession with rankings: how should Ireland respond?
Multi-scalar governance technologies vs recurring revenue: the dual logics of the rankings phenomenon
‘University Systems Ranking (USR)’: an alternative ranking [...]

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Message 1: ‘RAE2008 confirms UK’s dominant position in international research’

Like the launch of a spaceship at Cape Canaveral, the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) is being prepared for full release.  The press release was loaded up 14 minutes ago (and is reprinted below).  Careers, and department futures, will be made and broken when the results emerge in 46 minutes.
Note how they frame the results [...]

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International university rankings, classifications & mappings – a view from the European University Association

Source: European University Association Newsletter, No. 20, 5 December 2008.
Note: also see ‘Multi-scalar governance technologies vs recurring revenue: the dual logics of the rankings phenomenon‘

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The global obsession with rankings: how should Ireland respond?

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Multi-scalar governance technologies vs recurring revenue: the dual logics of the rankings phenomenon

Our most recent entry (‘University Systems Ranking (USR)’: an alternative ranking framework from EU think-tank‘) is getting heavy traffic these days, a sign that the rankings phenomenon just won’t go away.  Indeed there is every sign that debates about rankings will be heating up over the next 1-2 year in particular, courtesy of the desire [...]

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Times Higher Education – QS World University Rankings (2008): a niche industry in formation?

The new Times Higher Education – QS World University Rankings (2008) rankings were just released, and the copyright regulations deepen and extend, push and pull, enable and constrain.  Global rankings: a niche industry in formation?

Kris Olds

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New 2008 Shanghai rankings, by rankers who also certify rankers

Benchmarking, and audit culture more generally, are clearly the issues of the week. Following our coverage of a new Standard and Poor’s credit rating report regarding UK universities (‘Passing judgment’: the role of credit rating agencies in the global governance of UK universities‘), the Chronicle of Higher Education just noted that the 2008 Academic Ranking [...]

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‘Passing judgment’: the role of credit rating agencies in the global governance of UK universities

This week, one of the two major credit rating agencies in the world, Standard & Poor’s (Moody’s is the other), issued their annual ‘Report Card’ on UK universities. This year’s version is titled UK Universities Enjoy Higher Revenues but Still Face Spending Pressures and it has received a fair bit of attention in media outlets [...]

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