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Ranking academics: toward a critical politics of academic rankings

John WelshDepartment of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FinlandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 153-173 | Published online: 11 Nov 2017

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Alexander Paulsson & Nikos Macheridis. (2023) The policy unconscious: educational labor, the research-and-teaching relationship and the unquestioned meaning of higher education. Critical Policy Studies 17:2, pages 241-257.
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Cuneyt Belenkuyu & Engin Karadag. (2022) Hegemony in global rankings: A Gramscian analysis of bibliometric indices and ranking results. COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management 16:2, pages 253-277.
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Peregrine Schwartz-Shea. (2021) Under Threat? Methodological Pluralism in Public Administration. Public Performance & Management Review 44:5, pages 975-1005.
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Shirley Kempeneer & Wouter Van Dooren. (2020) The incommensurables: the arduous art of making a regulatory indicator. Critical Policy Studies 14:3, pages 285-302.
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John Welsh. (2020) ‘Globalizing’ academics? Ranking and appropriation in the transformations of the world-system. Globalizations 17:1, pages 126-145.
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Julian Hamann & Leopold Ringel. (2023) The discursive resilience of university rankings. Higher Education 86:4, pages 845-863.
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Riyad A. Shahjahan & Sanzhar Baizhanov. 2023. International Encyclopedia of Education(Fourth Edition). International Encyclopedia of Education(Fourth Edition) 261 271 .
John Welsh. (2021) Controlling academics: Power and resistance in the archipelago of post-COVID-19 audit regimes. Anthropological Theory 21:4, pages 460-493.
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John Welsh. (2021) Stratifying academia: ranking, oligarchy and the market‐myth in academic audit regimes. Social Anthropology 29:4, pages 907-927.
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John Welsh. (2020) Tolling academics: Rent-seeking and gatekeeping in the university space. Capital & Class 45:1, pages 93-121.
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Peregrine Schwartz-Shea. (2020) Mentoring: The Consequences of Formalization in the Age of Corporatization. PS: Political Science & Politics 53:4, pages 775-779.
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John Welsh. (2020) Subjectivising academics: the ranking apparatus, social transformation, and a 'crisis of subjectivity'. Subjectivity 13:3, pages 153-178.
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