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Abstract
Several individual indicators from the Times Higher Education Survey (THES) data base—the overall score, the reported staff-to-student ratio, and the peer ratings—demonstrate unacceptably high fluctuation from year to year. The inappropriateness of the summary tabulations for assessing the majority of the “top 200” universities would be apparent purely for reason of this obvious statistical instability regardless of other grounds of criticism. There are far too many anomalies in the change scores of the various indices for them to be of use in the course of university management.
Times Higher Education rankings . Scientometrics 2010 85 1 295 – 299 10.1007/s11192-010-0189-5 . Boshoff , N . Shanghai academic ranking of world universities (ARWU) and the ‘big five’ South African
Shanghai Jiao Tong University emphasize excellent academic achievement; the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan emphasizes academic achievement based on publications of research outputs; the Times Higher Education's ranking is
