Measuring Up in Higher Education - How University Rankings and League Tables are Re-shaping Knowledge Production in the Global Era | Anthony R. Welch
This book examines the quality assessment movement in academic scholarship, as globalization prompts a search for global measures of university services and output. It gauges productivity in terms of universal publication metrics, and considers ranking and research productivity from a comparative perspective. The book considers the use of the “impact factor” as a gauge of publication value, noting that this less important in countries lacking central government appropriations to universit...
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