Questions about formal rankings of universities, journals, conferences, or students (in a course or university) based on some quantitative metric(s). This is distinct from 'reputation' which may be measured informally and does not necessarily involve any quantitative metrics.
Questions tagged [ranking]
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recommendations for increasing the visibility and ranking of a faculty?
I was wondering what it really matters for a university to climb in the university rankings, for example in Science fields such as Mathematics, Physics or Computer Science?
I found that there are the following different services to let people know…
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Where can I find correlation between US News ranking and IPEDS database?
I have been building a search tool for colleges and universities in US. I could find most of the data from the IPEDS database. Now I am trying to relate the colleges with US News ranking. I'm trying to find any source of data which could give me…
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Does anyone in Academia.SE know about Saudi universities?
I did a masters 8 years ago. am 38, unemployed, and don't have any fund.
I want to go to the USA for a PhD. But, probably won't get a visa for having a study gap and/or being unemployed and old (on most occasions refusal letter would reply "You…
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Scientific Author Ranking Services
In the Economics profession, there is a free service called RePEc:
https://ideas.repec.org/
This service, amongst other things, ranks the top 5% of registered authors over a number of metrics (their publication number, citation, impact factor etc).…
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Applying to a masters program based on university rankings?
I'd very much love to study Math at the University of Copenhagen.
Since I am an International Student and cannot really see the university before I apply, university rankings will greatly affect my decision.
My only problem is that this university…
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What should I do to make the new University appeared in the Webometrics ranking?
What should I do to make a new University appear in the Webometrics ranking?
http://www.webometrics.info
Are scientific publications by researchers affiliated with this University (additionally assumes quoted) sufficient?
We assume that the…
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Associate Professor to Assistant Professor
Is it possible that an associate professor in one university be designated as assistant professor after a year in the same university? What could be the consequences of it?
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Associate adjunct professor to Assistant adjunct professor in USA
Is it possible that an Associate adjunct professor becomes assistant adjunct professor in USA university within same department of that university?
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What criteria is used by THE to determine whether a university gets a WUR ranking or not?
Some universities in the world don't have Times Higher Education's WUR ranking. For example, this university here. On what basis does THE decide to allocate a ranking to a university?
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Why do Australian universities have higher employability than that of British in QS Graduate Employability Ranking 2019?
QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2019
Why do Australian universities have higher employability (rank) than that of British ones in QS Graduate Employability Ranking?
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Which university ranking is more reliable in terms of academic reputation?
I have doubts about which of the university rankings is more reliable in terms of academic reputation, because there are notable differences in ranking for the same universities across different portals.
For example, if I consider a university X, I…
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