This paper proposes a critical analysis of the “Academic Ranking of World Universities”, published every year by the Institute of Higher Education of the Jiao Tong University in Shanghai and more commonly known as the Shanghai ranking. After having recalled how the ranking is built, we first discuss the relevance of the criteria and then analyze the proposed aggregation method. Our analysis use...

The ranking aggregation problem is that to establishing a new aggregate ranking given a set of rankings of a finite set of items. This problem is met in various applications, such as the combination of user preferences, the combination of lists of documents retrieved by search engines and the combination of ranked gene lists. In the literature, the ranking aggregation problem has been solved as...

INTRODUCTION Concerns about reproducibility and impact of research urge improvement initiatives. Current university ranking systems evaluate and compare universities on measures of academic and research performance. Although often useful for marketing purposes, the value of ranking systems when examining quality and outcomes is unclear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate usefulness of ra...

The maritime industry is moving towards a sustainable supply chain (SSC), intending to increase the quality of logistics and make more profit. sustainability (MSC) in Iran one topics that has not been widely studied. Ports play crucial role promoting Iran’s position international transit products, strengthening economic, social, environmental connections with neighboring eastern northeastern co...

Knowledge-based communities are popular Web-based tools that allow members to share and seek knowledge globally. However, research on how to search effectively within such knowledge repositories is scant. In this paper we study the problem of finding authoritative documents for user queries within a knowledge-based community. Unlike prior research on the ranking function design which considers ...