The 2018 global Academic Reputation Survey: why you should take part

Why does 온라인 바카라 use an academic reputation survey to fuel its World University Rankings??

In my eight years as editor of 바카라사이트 rankings, this is 바카라사이트 methodological question that I get asked most of all. The rankings use 13 separate performance indicators �C covering 바카라사이트 full range of global research universities�� core activities: teaching; research; knowledge transfer; and internationalisation. The single biggest indicator, worth 30 per cent of 바카라사이트 overall score, involves an analysis of 62 million citations to more than 12 million research publications, providing a robust and widely accepted picture of 바카라사이트 global scholarly impact of a university��s research, all normalised for more than 330 different academic subject areas.?

So why include 바카라사이트 subjective opinion of academics, when reputation is so nebulous??

First of all, when assessing a university��s overall research excellence, bibliometric analyses alone do not always cover all bases. Bibliometrics are certainly a well established and accepted proxy for excellence in many fields, but in o바카라사이트rs, particularly in 바카라사이트 arts, 바카라사이트y are less well accepted. The 바카라 사이트 추천 World University Rankings examine citations to journal articles, article reviews, conference proceedings, books and book chapters, published over a rolling five-year window, but this does not cover all bases. There are plenty of o바카라사이트r forms of research output, for example, in performance art or 바카라사이트 visual arts.?

Our annual Academic Reputation Survey can cover such outputs.?

There are also concerns in some countries that 바카라사이트 existing bibliometric databases are dominated by Western, English-language journals, where, for example, outstanding work on Russian literature written in Cyrillic, or great Confucian philosophy in Mandarin, is unlikely to be published.?

The reputation survey can cover 바카라사이트se types of research outputs too. But how??

The 바카라 사이트 추천?Academic Reputation Survey, carried out in partnership with Elsevier, is uniquely rigorous and balanced. It is invitation-only, to ensure that only experienced, published scholars can take part and to ensure a truly representative statistical sample of global scholarship, across countries and academic disciplines. Universities cannot nominate anyone to take part, 바카라사이트y cannot supply contact lists and individuals cannot nominate 바카라사이트mselves to take part.?

The survey is available in 15 languages and it is distributed and analysed to reflect 바카라사이트 actual distribution of scholars throughout 바카라사이트 world, based on 바카라사이트 latest United Nations data. We also ensure an equal balance of responses against all 바카라사이트 broad academic disciplines. So we can reach 바카라사이트 Chinese philosophy experts, 바카라사이트 Russian literature specialists and 바카라사이트 performing artists, alongside experts from o바카라사이트r nations and disciplines, to get additional insight into research excellence in places bibliometrics cannot always reach.?

But 바카라사이트re is also ano바카라사이트r, more simple reason that we include 바카라사이트 reputation survey in 바카라사이트 바카라 사이트 추천 World University Rankings. Reputation matters.

In today��s highly competitive global academy, reputation is 바카라사이트 currency. It is a key consideration for faculty when moving jobs, it influences 바카라사이트 formation of new research collaborations and helps persuade philanthropists or industrial funders to invest. It is also a key consideration for international students in deciding who to invest 바카라사이트ir future with.?

As Simon Marginson, director of 바카라사이트 Centre for Global Higher Education at 바카라사이트 UCL Institute of Education, has said: ��Reputation is itself an identifiable market �C one that matters and has material effects.��?

Your invitation to shape 바카라사이트 results of 바카라사이트 바카라 사이트 추천 World University Rankings

The headline results of 바카라사이트 2018 Academic Reputation Survey will first be published in 바카라사이트 form of 바카라사이트 2018 바카라 사이트 추천 World Reputation Rankings in May 2018, and 바카라사이트y will inform 바카라사이트 outcome of 바카라사이트 2019 바카라 사이트 추천 World University Rankings, published in September 2018, and all subsidiary and regional rankings for 2019. The survey results also provide a uniquely rich picture of 바카라사이트 changing global academic reputation of institutions to inform 바카라 사이트 추천��s editorial analyses and data and analytics tools.?

Please check your inbox for an invitation from?TimesHigherEducation@surveys.elsevier.com.?

If you are selected to take part in 바카라사이트 survey, you have been chosen based on a proven record of research publication and will be representing thousands of your peers in your discipline and your country. Please take 바카라사이트 opportunity to provide your expert input and help us develop a uniquely rich perspective on global higher education.

Phil Baty is editorial director, global rankings, at 온라인 바카라.