{"id":4357,"date":"2020-10-19T14:55:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T14:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:24","slug":"world-university-rankings-what-is-their-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2020\/10\/19\/world-university-rankings-what-is-their-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"World University rankings: what is their worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Interesting findings from an ARMA committee\u00a0<\/a> investigating some of the most well known and influential rankings of universities:\u00a0ARWU<\/a>,\u00a0THE WR<\/a>,\u00a0QS,\u00a0<\/a>U-Multirank<\/a>,\u00a0CWTS Leiden<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0US News & World Report<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They considered them in terms of a number of categories: good governance, transparency, do they measure what matters, and rigour. Data showing the expert assessments and senior expert calibrations are available<\/a>. A fuller report is also forthcoming but the initial findings and assessments of their quantitative\u00a0 measures can be downloaded from the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting findings from an ARMA committee\u00a0 investigating some of the most well known and influential rankings of universities:\u00a0ARWU,\u00a0THE WR,\u00a0QS,\u00a0U-Multirank,\u00a0CWTS Leiden\u00a0and\u00a0US News & World Report. They considered them in terms of a number of categories: good governance, transparency, do they measure what matters, and rigour. Data showing the expert assessments and senior expert calibrations are available. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[183,611,145],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-higher-education","tag-rankings","tag-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4358,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}