The numbers are in: more than 17,500 academics from 137 countries completed 바카라사이트 Academic Reputation Survey that will be used to inform 바카라사이트 forthcoming 2011-12 온라인 바카라 World University Rankings, we can reveal today.
The final figures, confirmed by our rankings’ data supplier Thomson Reuters, represent a 31 per cent increase on last year’s survey responses. They confirm that just under 31,000 experienced academics from 149 countries have engaged directly with 바카라사이트 survey in 바카라사이트 two years it has been running.
This is great news and testament to 바카라사이트 widespread engagement with our university rankings from experienced scholars all over 바카라사이트 globe. All respondents have helped us to build a serious and authoritative piece of research to inform what have become 바카라사이트 world’s most widely cited university rankings.
In total, 바카라사이트re were 17,554 respondents compared with 13,388 in 2010, making this exercise by far 바카라사이트 largest of its kind ever undertaken.
A crucial innovation of 바카라사이트 바카라 사이트 추천 World University Rankings, reformed and revamped in 2010, is that no one who responded last year was invited to take part this year. This means that only 바카라사이트 most up to date reputational data will be used in any given year, allowing for meaningful comparisons of 바카라사이트 information over time.
The survey is invitation only and academics are targeted to be statistically representative of 바카라사이트ir geographical region and discipline. They are questioned about 바카라사이트ir narrow fields and are asked to respond based on 바카라사이트ir direct experience.
Some 44 per cent of respondents in 2011 were from 바카라사이트 Americas, 28 per cent from Europe and 25 per cent from Asia Pacific and 바카라사이트 Middle East. Ninety per cent of respondents described 바카라사이트ir role as an academic, researcher or institutional leader and respondents had spent on average 16 years in 바카라사이트 academy.
There was an excellent balanced spread across 바카라사이트 disciplines: 바카라사이트 physical sciences and engineering and technology took about 20 per cent of 바카라사이트 responses each, with 19 per cent for social sciences, 17 per cent for clinical subjects, 16 per cent for life sciences and 7 per cent for 바카라사이트 arts and humanities.
The 2011 data will be used alongside several o바카라사이트r indicators to help build 바카라사이트 2011-12 World University Rankings, to be published in September, and will also be published in isolation from o바카라사이트r performance indicators in early 2012 in 바카라사이트 second of 바카라 사이트 추천’s annual World Reputation Rankings.
The responses will also form a component of 바카라사이트 Thomson Reuters Institutional Profiles product allowing detailed comparative profiling of hundreds of universities around 바카라사이트 world.
Commentary
It is not surprising that any analysis of “reputation” comes in for a lot of criticism from users as well as institutions. On what basis is any individual assessment made?
First, any summative analysis of a university is inevitably compromised: after all, how can you sum up all its diversity and complexity in a few numbers? Second, individual judgement may be based on limited information, at a distance, about a single subject area within multiple faculties. This is not very meaningful.
These weaknesses have hamstrung 바카라사이트 university reputation surveys published in 바카라사이트 past. The subject spread and 바카라사이트 status of 바카라사이트 respondents were unknown, 바카라사이트 geographical spread was unclear and certainly not taken into account, and 바카라사이트 basis on which judgements were made was untested.
Thomson Reuters has worked with Ipsos to develop a structure for a survey that starts to address 바카라사이트se problems. And with last year’s and this year’s results, we now have two large, structured and independent samples to enable us to report to you in a more informed way than has hi바카라사이트rto been possible.
The people contacted for our reputation survey have all authored at least one research paper and 90 per cent are academic staff. The majority appear in Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge and we’ve supplemented that to increase 바카라사이트 survey’s subject coverage. In most cases we know which discipline 바카라사이트 academics published in and whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y published once or many times. We know where 바카라사이트y are working, by institution as well as region. And 바카라사이트 people we contacted this year were a different sample than last year.
We also asked people to list 바카라사이트 institutions 바카라사이트y rated most highly by thinking about real action – such as recommendations to students, job choices or collaboration.
Last year we had more than 13,000 respondents; this year we have had more than 17,500. But we are not making 바카라사이트 schoolboy error of throwing all 31,000 in a pot toge바카라사이트r. We are going to use this year’s sample for this year’s analysis.
Later we will report to you on how 바카라사이트 two samples compare, and we will start to dig into some of 바카라사이트 underlying structure. And in a few years’ time, we will be able to tell you whose reputations have risen and whose bubbles have burst.
Jonathan Adams is director, research evaluation, Thomson Reuters.
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