Matching Visibility and Performance
A Standing Challenge for World-Class Universities
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Correction to: Inward international students in China and their contributions to global common goods
The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake.
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Inward international students in China and their contributions to global common goods
This study identifies the (global) common goods produced and augmented by inward student mobility and its relevance to national policies and strategies in China by interviewing 27 policy-makers, university lea...
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New wine in old bottles? Examining institutional hierarchy in laureate mobility networks, 1900–2017
One of the major trends in academia today is the constant growth of the mobility of scientists. However, the unbalanced mobility of scientific elites can not only lead to institutional hierarchy in research se...
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Rethinking higher education in China as a common good
Tendencies to marketization and privatization in higher education, along with other factors, have challenged the idea of higher education as a public good in many countries over the years. China has experience...
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Matching Visibility and Performance
The concept of world-class universities (WCU) has increasingly gained popularity in the past two decades around the world. WCU, often used interchangeably to refer to research universities or flagship universi...
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Improving the normalization effect of mean-based method from the perspective of optimization: optimization-based linear methods and their performance
Mean-based method may be the most popular linear method for field normalization of citation impact. However, the relatively good but not ideal performance of mean-based method, plus its being a special case of...
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Comparison of the effect of mean-based method and z-score for field normalization of citations at the level of Web of Science subject categories
Field normalization is a necessary step in a fair cross-field comparison of citation impact. In practice, mean-based method (m-score) is the most popular method for field normalization. However, considering that ...
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How World-Class Universities Affect Global Higher Education
World-class universities (WCU), commonly recognized as global research universities or flagship universities, are cornerstone institutions embedded in any academic system and play an important role in developi...
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Development and Prospect of World-Class Universities in East Asia and Beyond
This chapter focuses on issues and debates on current development and future trends of world-class universities in East Asian countries and regions. World-class universities, also known as research universitie...
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Building World-Class Universities
World-class universities, commonly referred to as the most prestigious research universities, are essential in develo** a nation’s competitiveness in the global knowledge economy. These universities, at the ...
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A first approach to the classification of the top 500 world universities by their disciplinary characteristics using scientometrics
In this study, the top 500 world universities are classified into 21 types according to their disciplinary characteristics using clustering method. The indicators used to represent the disciplinary characteris...
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Academic ranking of world universities using scientometrics - A comment to the “Fatal Attraction”
The Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University published on the web the Academic Ranking of World Universities and attracted wide attentions worldwide. 60% of their criteria are based on the ...
