petersuber , 9 days ago to AcademicChatter group

#University #rankings as incentives to commit research #misconduct in #China.

• summary
  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01697-y

• primary source
  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17470161241247720

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petersuber , 4 months ago to AcademicChatter group

Here's a new way to game #university #rankings.
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/02/an-intellectually-enriching-opportunity.html

University X offers short-term fellowships. For remuneration, it pays fellows up to $1,000 for every article they publish in Scopus-indexed journals acknowledging X as their institutional affiliation.

Who would do this? For one, the University of Religions and Denominations (Qom, Iran). Thanks to Nick Wise for publicizing the URD offer.

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petersuber , 7 months ago to AcademicChatter group

I just declined to take part in the #TimesHigherEd Global Academic #Reputation Survey. The results "will inform the outcome of THE's World #University #Rankings 2025."

If uni rankings are useful at all, it's not on reputation. We could use rankings on (say) % of students on financial aid; % of faculty tenured or tenure-track; % of tenured faculty who are women, minorities; ratio of teachers to administrators; ratio of avg faculty salary to head football coach salary…

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