David Weir :v_enby:<p>Nope, not this year, not last year, not next year. 🙅</p><p>Rankings are bad.</p><p>Also, “you have been selected based on your record of research publication”?! You sent this to the email address I used as a doctoral researcher. It’s on about three papers published over a decade ago. Not sure I trust your methodology if that’s how you select people. 🤷</p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Rankings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rankings</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/UniversityRankings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityRankings</span></a></p>
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Brian Gettler<p>World University Rankings: Salaries of Upper Administrators who Actively Undermine their Institution's Stated Goals</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/UniversityRankings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityRankings</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
Dmitry Kochetkov<p>Finally, my review paper on university rankings has been published in Quantitative Science Studies <a href="https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00317" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00317</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. It was a long way. Once again, I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.cwts.nl/@LudoWaltman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>LudoWaltman</span></a></span> , with whom we had a dozen R&R rounds. Hope this paper will contribute to the discussion around university rankings and their role in research assessment and policy initiatives.<br><a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/universityrankings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universityrankings</span></a> <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>review</span></a> <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/researchassessment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>researchassessment</span></a> <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policy</span></a></p>
Cameron Neylon<p>Last week COKI was very excited to run a webinar in collaboration with Future Campus with <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@lizziegadd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lizziegadd</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.cwts.nl/@LudoWaltman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>LudoWaltman</span></a></span> on the future of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/UniversityRankings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityRankings</span></a> in an <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OpenData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenData</span></a> world</p><p>The video is now up (although I have not yet finished editing the subtitles I'm afraid!)</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/XvhiGkuXpH8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/XvhiGkuXpH8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dmitry Kochetkov<p>This year marks 20 years since the first ARWU ranking appeared and the era of global university rankings emerged. Conceived as a tool for benchmarking and marketing, rankings have become a means of <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/researchevaluation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>researchevaluation</span></a> and fueling political ambitions. My recent post <a href="https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the-role-of-university-rankings-in-research-evaluation-revisited" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the</span><span class="invisible">-role-of-university-rankings-in-research-evaluation-revisited</span></a> in <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.cwts.nl/@leidenmadtrics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>leidenmadtrics</span></a></span> summarizes the results of the study aimed to provide an extensive review of the literature on the use of <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/universityrankings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universityrankings</span></a> in <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/researchassessment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>researchassessment</span></a> and <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/excellenceinitiatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>excellenceinitiatives</span></a>.</p>
Matt Hodgkinson<p>Classic citation manipulation 🚩</p><p>"“Our team has a wider research knowledge and experience that has been converted into high impact publications.” It is followed by more than a dozen citations of unrelated Saveetha publications."</p><p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/did-nasty-publishing-scheme-help-indian-dental-school-win-high-rankings" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/di</span><span class="invisible">d-nasty-publishing-scheme-help-indian-dental-school-win-high-rankings</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PublicationEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicationEthics</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Citations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Citations</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bibliometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bibliometrics</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/UniversityRankings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityRankings</span></a></p>
EUA<p>Are university rankings true, fair, or helpful? For <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@lizziegadd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lizziegadd</span></a></span> , it is time for the higher education sector to think carefully about the effects of global university rankings. To explain why, she responds to these three questions.</p><p>Read her <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/EUAExpertVoices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EUAExpertVoices</span></a> article here <a href="https://eua.eu/resources/expert-voices/307-are-university-rankings-true,-fair,-or-helpful.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-mastodon-26-05-2023" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eua.eu/resources/expert-voices</span><span class="invisible">/307-are-university-rankings-true,-fair,-or-helpful.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-mastodon-26-05-2023</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/rankings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rankings</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/universityrankings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universityrankings</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/ResearchAssessment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchAssessment</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/CoARA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoARA</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/@INORMS_REG" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>INORMS_REG</span></a></span></p>
Elizabeth Gadd<p>I’ve spent the last 3 days at the European University Association (EUA) conference talking about how the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UniversityRankings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityRankings</span></a> are failing to meet the needs of the HE sector. The EUA are now issuing some guidelines on this which is extremely exciting. <a href="https://bit.ly/3N16a23" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bit.ly/3N16a23</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
David Weir :potion_nonbinary:<p>Uusin liittojen <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Acatiimi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acatiimi</span></a>-lehti on toistanut kritiikittömästi TES-yliopistorankingin. Odotan liitoilta (jos ei Akavalta) parempaa, sillä yliopistorankingit vaikuttavat opetuksen ja tutkimuksen tavoitteisiin niin, että ne toimivat täysin liittojen jäseneiden etujen vastaan.</p><p>(Tässä on muuten hyvä johdanto rankingeiden ongelmiin, ainakin Pohjois-Amerikan näkökulmasta: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/yale-starts-an-exodusfrom-a-rank-tradition/2022/11/20/7097b234-68dc-11ed-8619-0b92f0565592_story.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/business/ya</span><span class="invisible">le-starts-an-exodusfrom-a-rank-tradition/2022/11/20/7097b234-68dc-11ed-8619-0b92f0565592_story.html</span></a> tai <a href="http://archive.today/L7fh9" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">archive.today/L7fh9</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>)</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Yliopistorankingit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yliopistorankingit</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/UniversityRankings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityRankings</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Liitot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Liitot</span></a></p>
Lynn Chiu the Scicommer<p>An eye-opening webinar on the fundamental nature of "academic publication" as an industry. Alarming stuff all academics need to know about. </p><p>The Business of Ranking, Publishing, and Data Analytics <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y2mfE921Oc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=7Y2mfE921O</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Publishing</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elsevier</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BigData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigData</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DataAnalytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataAnalytics</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Universities</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Comms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Comms</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WebofScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebofScience</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicRanking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicRanking</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/UniversityRankings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityRankings</span></a></p>
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