Academic quality, league tables, and public policy: A cross-national analysis of university ranking systems

By D. Dill, Maarja Soo. 2005

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Subfields: Education, Political Science and International Relations

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Comparing university rankings (2010, background): “These advertising activities are also addressed towards increasing the potential for receiving educational funding and employing high quality scholars which allow improving the university’s position in the educational market (Dill and Soo 2005; Eccles 2002).”
Diversification? Trends and explanations of the shape and size of higher education (2008, methodology): “the overview and analysis in Dill and Soo 2005 ).”
The Past, Present, and Future of University Rankings (2011, background): “Researches based on the US and UK contexts have found that students from high-income and high-achieving family tend to rely heavily on rankings in their college choice ( Dill and Soo 2005 ).”
Neo-Liberalism and Marketisation: The Implications for Higher Education (2006, background): “The move from the academic to the operational does not happen in the name of serving commercial interests or values in all countries or at all times (although it seems to have happened in this way in the United Kingdom – see Rutherford, 2005).”
League Tables as Policy Instruments: Uses and Misuses (2007, background): “A second concern pertains to the choice of constellation of indicators and their validity and reliability as well as their comprehensiveness as a measure of quality (Brooks, 2005; Clarke, 2002; Dill and Soo, 2005).”
Global University Rankings: Implications in general and for Australia (2007, background): “But ‘empirical research … suggests that the correlation between research productivity and undergraduate instruction is very small and teaching and research appear to be more or less independent activities’ (Dill & Soo, 2005, p. 507).”
Transforming Higher Education in Whose Image? Exploring the Concept of the ‘World-Class’ University in Europe and Asia (2008, background): “One major consequence of this is the intensified competition among universities to prove their performance through global university league tables or ranking exercises (Dill and Soo, 2005; Guarino et al., 2005; Liu and Cheng, 2005; Merisotis and Sadlak, 2005; Marginson, 2006).”
Benchmarking university-industry research cooperation worldwide: performance measurements and indicators based on co-authorship data for the world's largest universities (2009, background): “…rankings and league tables are now a prominent feature of the public information, where measurement issues and cross-national comparisons are becoming increasingly important within research evaluation frameworks (Dill and Soo, 2005; Marginson and Van der Wende, 2007; Williams and Van Dyke, 2007).”
Performance Management in Universities: Effects of the Transition to More Quantitative Measurement Systems (2012, background): “There have been some papers discussing research assessments (especially the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in the UK) and the use of journal rankings (see Merisotis and Sadlak, 2005; Dill and Soo, 2005; Ashton et al., 2009; Marginson and van der Wende, 2009).”
Manufacturing competition: how accounting practices shape strategy making in cities (2010, neutral): “Save for a few studies (Dunne et al., 2008), most research argues for a refinement of the criteria and analytical methods to create more “accurate” results that are internationally more comparative (e.g. Dill and Soo, 2005).”
To Rank or To Be Ranked: The Impact of Global Rankings in Higher Education (2007, background): “Dill and Soo (2005) compare 5 rankings system.”
Global and national prominent universities: internationalization, competitiveness and the role of the State (2009, background): “…class universities’’ in the international arena is legitimized by worldwide university league tables that assess mainly performance characteristics associated to research activities, but which nonetheless, fuel the competitive enthusiasm among universities at global level (e.g., Dill and Soo 2005).”
Anchoring effects in world university rankings: exploring biases in reputation scores (2011, background): “1998), inappropriateness of the instrument for external decision making (Dill and Soo 2005; Hazelkorn 2008; Salmi and Saroyan 2007) and substantial concerns about the validity and reliability of rankings (Bowden 2000; Kroth and Daniel 2008; Tight 2000; Turner 2005; Van Dyke 2005).”