Global university rankings: Metrics, performance, governance

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Notes

1. I met and later collaborated with Ron Barnett at the Institute. We have completed a two volumed work under the title of The Idea of the University—a book of readings reviewing German, British, American and other traditions and a set of contemporary perspectives (Barnett & Peters, 2017; Peters & Barnett, 2017).

2. In addition, see Besley and Peters (2005); Peters (1994, 2004a, 2004b, 2006).

3. http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/publist_sciex.pdf

4. Garfield passed away this year. See his webpage at http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/.

5. https://clarivate.com/products/web-of-science/

6. https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/press-releases/2016/july/thomson-reuters-announces-definitive-agreement-to-sell-its-intellectual-property-science-business.html

7. BC Partners are pan-European buy-out investors founded in 1986 and completing 97 acquisitions with a total enterprise value of over €120 billion, http://www.bcpartners.com/about-us?sc_lang=en. The Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is ‘a media group dedicated to science, education and … reading,’ https://www.holtzbrinck.com/.

8. https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100616/full/465864a.html.

9. https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/us-tops-global-research-performance

10. See https://www.nature.com/news/china-predicted-to-outspend-the-us-on-science-by-2020-1.16329

11. See e.g. http://www.nature.com/news/research-gets-increasingly-international-1.19198

12. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2017/world-ranking#!/page/8/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats

13. See the new set of measures develop by THE for ‘teaching excellence’ in https://www.timeshighereducation.com/policy/teaching-excellence-framework-tef

14. The Berlin Principles on Ranking of Higher Education Institutions (www.ireg-observatory.org) and the International Ranking Expert Group (IREG) and its Ranking Audit provides some check on ranking agencies and the quality of measures.