图书统计指标与大学排名位置之间的关系
Péter Szluka1, Edit Csajbók1,2, Balázs Győrffy3,4
1Central Library, Semmelweis University, 1088, Budapest, Hungary.
Scientific reports
|August 30, 2023
概括
国际大学排名对科学生产力有很大的影响. 高影响力的研究在一些排名中提升了排名,而另一些排名则偏爱学生数量较少,科学,技术和医学出版物较多的大学.
科学领域:
- 图书统计学 图书统计学
- 高等教育排名的排名
- 科学测量公司的科学测量.
背景情况:
- 国际大学排名越来越多地被用来证明机构的声望.
- 科学生产力是许多全球大学排名系统的关键参数.
- 存在不同的排名方法,导致机构的结果各不相同.
研究的目的:
- 分析主要国际大学排名之间的差异.
- 检查文献计量指标与跨学科大学绩效之间的相关性.
- 为旨在改善其全球地位的机构提供决策信息.
主要方法:
- 从四个排名中调查了前300所大学:时代高等教育 (THE),QS世界大学排名 (QS),上海排名 (ARWU) 和美国新闻最佳全球大学 (USNews).
- 评估排名位置,与规模相关的指标和文献计量数据.
- 分析了科学度参数 (20%-75%) 和引用和出版物等关键指标的权重.
主要成果:
- 科学度参数的权重在各个排名中有很大差异 (QS的20%到USNews的75%).
- 关键参数包括引用,国际声誉和研究人员人数,相关性强度各不相同.
- 在规模独立排名 (QS, THE) 中表现出色的大学往往有较少的学生.
- 高影响力的研究改善了ARWU和USNews的位置.
- 排名有利于社会科学,而USNews和QS则有利于科学,技术和医学.
结论:
- 不同的大学排名系统优先考虑不同的文献计量和定性指标.
- 对于寻求提高其全球知名度的机构来说,了解这些差异至关重要.
- 该研究强调了研究成果,学科重点和国际大学地位之间的复杂相互作用.
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