The world university rankings: differentiations in rankings according to the expanded indicator set

World Rankings of Iranian Anesthesia Research

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Are the Official World Golf Rankings Biased?∗

Golf is a global sport with professional golfers playing on many organized tours throughout the world. The largest and most important tours for male professionals include the PGA Tour, European Tour, Japanese Tour and Asian Tour. The Official World Golf Ranking, or OWGR, is a system for ranking male professional golfers on a single scale. We say a ranking system is unbiased if otherwise identic...

A different approach to university rankings

Educationalists are well able to find fault with rankings on numerous grounds and may reject them outright. However, given that they are here to stay, we could also try to improve them wherever possible. All currently published university rankings combine various measures to produce an overall score using an additive approach. The individual measures are first normalized to make the figures ‘co...

On the function of university rankings

The new Excellence Indicator in the World Report of the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2011

The SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) World Reports publish annually an international ranking of more than 2000 research institutions and organizations. The reports list indicator values based on publication and citation data from Scopus (Elsevier) for research-devoted institutions with at least 100 papers published within one year. The second edition published in 2010 included for each insti...