Measuring up in higher education : how university rankings and league tables are re-shaping knowledge production in the global era /

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Imprint:	Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Universities and colleges -- Ratings and rankings. Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives. Knowledge economy. Higher education and state. Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives. Higher education and state. Knowledge economy. Universities and colleges -- Ratings and rankings.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12612781

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Other authors / contributors:	Welch, Anthony. Li, Jun.
ISBN:	9789811579219 9811579210 9811579202 9789811579202
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: 9811579202 9789811579202
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-981-15-7921-9

Table of Contents:

The Global Ranking Regime and the Redened Mission of Higher Education in the Post-Covid Era
An Introduction
Conceptualization and Theory Building
Rank Scholarship Today
Local Knowledge When Ranking Journals
The Ranking Regime and the Production of Knowledge
Academic Publishing in South African Universities
Vernacular Scholarship
The SSCI Syndrome
Cases, Contexts and Reections
Comparative Case Studies on Research Assessment Exercises in China, Hong Kong, and Japan
Measuring by Numbers
The Case of Taiwan
The Paradox of Autonomy
The Shifting Sands of Academic Output
Audit Culture and Academic Production
Global Research Productivity Rivalry
Actors and Roles
In League: The Brave New World of Higher Education
Conclusion.

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