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Isidro Aguillo Cybermetrics Lab, CCHS – CSIC, Albasanz, 26-28, 28037 Madrid, Spain

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Judit Bar-Ilan Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat Gan, Israel

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Mark Levene School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck University of London, London, WC1E 7HX UK

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Abstract  

Recently there is increasing interest in university rankings. Annual rankings of world universities are published by QS for the Times Higher Education Supplement, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Higher Education and Accreditation Council of Taiwan and rankings based on Web visibility by the Cybermetrics Lab at CSIC. In this paper we compare the rankings using a set of similarity measures. For the rankings that are being published for a number of years we also examine longitudinal patterns. The rankings limited to European universities are compared to the ranking of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University. The findings show that there are reasonable similarities between the rankings, even though each applies a different methodology. The biggest differences are between the rankings provided by the QS-Times Higher Education Supplement and the Ranking Web of the CSIC Cybermetrics Lab. The highest similarities were observed between the Taiwanese and the Leiden rankings from European universities. Overall the similarities are increased when the comparison is limited to the European universities.

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Scientometrics
Language English
Size B5
Year of
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1978
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1
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12
Founder Akadémiai Kiadó
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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ISSN 0138-9130 (Print)
ISSN 1588-2861 (Online)