Universities are now expected to actively contribute to socio-economic development, extending beyond their customary focus on teaching and research. Traditionally, the impact of universities on the labor market, measured through graduate ...

In this study, the scientific production of universities across the world is analysed, disaggregating it by research fields and specialities. A particular focus is on the strategic analysis of Spanish universities within the international ...

University ranking systems use various single and multi-faceted methodologies. Despite being efficient and less biased, the former fails to cover all academic performance dimensions, requiring solutions to improve its effectiveness. Previous ...

Predicting international rankings has always been a demanding area for Universities and Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) all over the world in the recent decade. In this research work, a novel tool EnFftRP (Ensembled Fast Fourier Transformed ...

In over five years, Bornmann, Stefaner, de Moya Anegon, and Mutz (2014b) and Bornmann, Stefaner, de Moya Anegón, and Mutz (2014c, 2015) have published several releases of the tool revealing (clusters of) excellent ...

Given the significant role of universities in economic growth and social progress as well as the increasing demand for greater transparency regarding the use of public money, a valid assessment of university performance has become crucial for ...

While bibliometric analysis is normally able to rely on complete publication sets this is not universally the case. For example, Australia (in ERA) and the UK (in the RAE/REF) use institutional research assessment that may rely on small or ...

University rankings are now relevant decision-making tools for both institutional and private purposes in the management of higher education and research. However, they are often computed only for a small set of institutions using some ...

Universities pay serious attention to a wide variety of rankings in comparison with other national or international universities. Such ranking is used for peer comparisons, funds' acquisition and distribution, hiring, recruiting, and more. Several ...

This article is focused on the government program for increasing competitiveness of Russian universities "5---top 100" started in 2013. The main aim of the program is creating necessary conditions for Russian universities for being ranked in the top-...

There are increasing demands on universities to operate transparently with regard how resources are being used and targets met, putting them under growing pressure to clarify their position relative to other universities at national and international ...

In this discussion we show that the significance of the cubic relationship observed in Basu et al. (Scientometrics, 2016. doi: 10.1007/s11192-016-1935-0) can be explained simply--QQCI is a proxy for the normalized form of the exergy term X = (TC2/TP) ...

Universities and the members of their faculties, by means of open access, open education, and social media engagement, contribute to many publicly accessible resources of academic values, i.e., open scholarship. To encourage universities to contribute ...

Existing university rankings apply fixed and exogenous weights based on a theoretical framework, stakeholder or expert opinions. Fixed weights cannot embrace all requirements of a `good ranking' according to the Berlin Principles. As the strengths of ...