Saturday, March 26, 2016

Ranking Rankings Again


Magnus Gunnarsson of the University of Gothenburg has reminded me of a 2010 report which included an assessment of methodology based on IREG's Berlin principles.

There were 16 Berlin principles, 14 of which were given weighted subscores in the report. The values and weighting were determined  subjectively although the rankers were evidently well informed.

The Berlin principles were grouped in four categories, Purpose and Goals of Rankings, Design and Weighting of Indicators, Collection and Processing of Data and Presentation of Ranking Results. For more information see here.

The ranking of rankings  by methodology is as follows. It is obviously out of date.


Position
Ranking
Overall method score
1= CHE (Germany) 3.10
1=  Webometrics 3.10
HEEACT (now Taiwan National
University)
2.90
4 ARWU (Shanghai) 2.80
5= High Impact Universities (Australia) 2.60
5= Observatory (sustainable development)2.60
7= Scimago 2.40
7= CWTS Leiden ranking 2.40
9 THE 2.30
10 Mines Paris Tech 2.20
11 QS 2.10
12 Rater (Russia) 1.70

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