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Abstract
In 2004 the Slovak Academic Ranking and Rating Agency (ARRA) was established as an independent body with the main goal of comparing the performance and quality of Slovak higher education institutions (HEIs) and providing the general public, the academic sector, and the government with an independent view of the quality of the country's HEIs. The first two rankings were published in 2005 and 2006 and the latest one was published at the end of 2007. The twenty public universities and their ninety‐nine faculties were ranked in clusters according to the Frascati Manual. This paper describes the methodology and indicators used in this ranking exercise.
Notes
1. The structure of ARRA can be seen on its website ⟨www.arra.sk⟩.
2. The terms “publication” and “citation” hereafter refer only to publications from the WoK database and citations in papers included in it.
3. Students referred to in this category of indicators are those studying both full‐ and part‐time in Bachelor's and Master's programs.
4. For example, at Comenius University (the oldest and largest university in the country with some 27,000 students and 5,000 full‐time employees) the overall number of full‐time teachers is 1,984, the number of professors 298, and associate professors 390, altogether slightly less than thirty‐five percent. The Slovak average is 35.2 percent.
5. Available at ⟨www.arra.sk⟩.