World University Rankings 2023: US stagnating, Oceania rising, and a weak point for China
The global picture is changing, as five countries enter the ranking for the first time – all of them in Africa. Rosa Ellis reports
The global picture is changing, as five countries enter the ranking for the first time – all of them in Africa. Rosa Ellis reports
Scholarly ethics expert Yuehong (Helen) Zhang says the region’s approach to research ethics is changing
We can expect some big-name institutions to take a hit in the new World University Rankings.Why? Because the rankings we will publish this autumn will be based less on subjective opinion and more on...
We have had to make some extraordinarily difficult decisions this week - on which institutions to exclude from our 2010 World University Rankings.In the autumn, we will publish our annual list of the...
The special administrative region’s status as an international crossroads has been severely shaken by the National Security Law and stringent Covid lockdowns. But sector leaders remain buoyant about...
One of the things that I have been keen to do as editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings is to engage as much as possible with our harshest critics.
More than two months ago, we published the first draft of our planned new methodology for the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.The draft, detailing how we will draw together 13...
According to Janez Potocnik, former European Commissioner for science and research, world university rankings are now used by politicians "as a measurement of their nation's economic strength and...
So now we get to the hard part.I have spent months discussing the problems of our previous university ranking system: a weak response rate to the reputational survey, the failure to normalise...
Some scholars in the arts and humanities have expressed concern - to put it mildly - that the citation data used in the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings will fail to measure the...
Times Higher Education regularly writes about the effects of bureaucracy on the academy - quality assurance, research assessment, grant applications and the demands of quangos and other "stakeholders...
I've been frank in admitting that perhaps the biggest flaw in our old world rankings, which ran from 2004 to 2009, was the "peer-review" element.A simple reputational survey, it made up 40 per cent...
"Is the ratio of servers to customers in a restaurant a good proxy for the quality of the food?"This was one of the rather scathing rhetorical questions posed by a US academic when I invited readers...
Magazines that compile league tables have an interest in instability - playing around with their methodologies to ensure rankings remain newsworthy.This was the argument made by Alice Gast, president...
Is it valid to use reputation measures in university rankings?