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Measuring Up in Higher Education - How University Rankings and League Tables are Re-shaping Knowledge Production in the Global Era (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Measuring Up in Higher Education - How University Rankings and League Tables are Re-shaping Knowledge Production in the Global Era (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book examines the quality assessment movement in academic
scholarship, as globalization prompts a search for global measures
of university services and output. It gauges productivity in terms
of universal publication metrics, and considers ranking and
research productivity from a comparative perspective. The book
considers the use of the "impact factor" as a gauge of publication
value, noting that this less important in countries lacking central
government appropriations to universities and to research. It
argues that pressure to publish in certain journals, and to
research topics of interest to English language readers, has been
felt differentially in English-language systems, compared to
others, but also that performance pressures fall more on younger,
more juniour, contract staff, than on senior and tenured
professors. It problematizes international comparisons of quality,
and analyses the benefits of a zone of ideas and metrics in a
common language - promoting international mobility, efficiency,
collaboration - but also the costs which are rarely borne equally
across countries, languages and cultures. The book provides a
strong, evidence-based contribution to major debates in
contemporary higher education reforms and the measurement of
academic output.
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