Research Handbook on University Rankings: Theory, Methodology, Influence and Imp

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Gathering unique and thoughtful contributions from leading international scholars, this timely Research Handbook offers diverse perspectives on university rankings twenty years after the first global rankings emerged. It presents an in-depth analysis that reflects the current state of research on rankings, their influence and impact.

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Gathering unique and thoughtful contributions from leading international scholars, this timely Research Handbook offers diverse perspectives on university rankings twenty years after the first global rankings emerged. It presents an in-depth analysis that reflects the current state of research on rankings, their influence and impact.The Research Handbook explores how rankings and their impacts can be theorized and conceptualized, as well as the methodological tensions that rankings generate. It further examines how rankings have affected institutional behaviours and interacted with the quality agenda in higher education, examining what rankings mean for equity, teaching and learning, and students. Chapters also analyse how rankings interact with and accentuate the geopolitics of higher education, looking ahead to emergent policy issues and responses to rankings.Higher education researchers, policy and decision makers as well as rankings followers will find the critical insights into globalisation and geopolitics, quality assurance, international comparability and assessment, and student outcomes and learning in this Research Handbook interesting. It will also be a useful read for higher education and university leaders and managers wanting a better understanding of rankings and their usefulness and challenges.

Author Biography

Edited by Ellen Hazelkorn, Partner, BH Associates, Professor Emerita, Technological University Dublin, Ireland and Joint Editor, Policy Reviews in Higher Education and Georgiana Mihut, Assistant Professor, Department of Education Studies, University of Warwick, UK

Table of Contents

Contents:Foreword: reflections on rankings xxiiiPhilip G. Altbach1 Introduction: putting rankings in context ' looking back, looking forward 1Ellen Hazelkorn and Georgiana MihutPART I CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL RANKINGS2 The reality underneath the rankings: trends in global science 19Simon Marginson3 How do we know what we know? Empirical methodologies forstudying college rankings 38Jeongeun Kim and Michael Bastedo4 Rankings and global knowledge governance 54Tero Erkkilä and Ossi Piironen5 Theorizing university rankings by comparison: systematic and historicalanalogies with arts and sports 67Jelena Brankovic, Leopold Ringel and Tobias Werron6 Researching and understanding the influence of rankings on highereducation institutions: logics, methodologies and conceptualisations 80William Locke7 Benchmarking and zeitgeist: university ranking in post-turbo-globalizedneoliberalism (Post-TGNL) 93Hans Peter HertigPART II METHODOLOGICAL TENSIONS8 Multidimensional taxonomy of university rankings 106Enrique Orduña-Malea and Carmen Perez-Esparrells9 What do global rankings try to measure? Global university rankingmethodologies since 2003 127Richard Holmes10 Rankings and internationalization: an unfortunate alliance 137Gerardo L. Blanco, Laura E. Rumbley and Hans de Wit11 Gender equality: a neglected or rhetorical dimension of rankings inhigher education? 150Pat O'Connor12 University rankings and the third mission of higher education 163Robert Kelchen13 How future-proof are world university rankings? The case of the MostInnovative Universities ranking 171Robert TijssenPART III INSTITUTIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND THE QUALITY AGENDA14 Quality assurance and rankings: some European lessons 185Andrée Sursock15 Higher education system rankings and benchmarking 197Cláudia S. Sarrico and Ana Godonoga16 Institutional responses to university rankings: a tale of adaptation andcognitive framing 210Andrea Bonaccorsi, Paola Belingheri, Brigida Blasi and Sandra Romagnosi17 Reimaging university identities through rankings in Japan: thetransformation of national policies and university behaviours in thebroader East Asian context 231Akiyoshi Yonezawa18 Striving for excellence in the age of rankings: insights from two leadingresearch universities in Latin America 247Andrés Bernasconi and Marcelo Knobel19 Conflating perception and purpose: the University of Louisville and theprominence challenge 262Tara K. Ising and James D. Breslin20 Are university rankings still important? Perspectives from Greater China 278William Yat Wai Lo and Shuiyun LiuPART IV EQUITY, TEACHING AND STUDENT CHOICE21 The implications of rankings for equity in higher education 295Laura W. Perna, Jeremy Wright-Kim and Julia Brickfield22 University rankings and students' information needs: what is the relation? 307Jens Jungblut, Bjørn Stensaker and Martina Vukasovic23 Does teaching count? The relationship between US News & WorldReport faculty resource measures and students' experiences with faculty 320John Zilvinskis, Louis M. Rocconi and Alexander C. McCormick24 Teaching and learning in university rankings: a critical review andreassessment 329Kyle T. Fassett and Alexander C. McCormick25 Learning gain in excellence frameworks and rankings 340Camille Kandiko HowsonPART V (GEO)POLITICS OF HIGHER EDUCATION26 Ideas for theorizing the geopolitics of higher education in the globalrankings era 354Brendan Cantwell27 A critical review of the history, achievements and impacts of China'squest for world-class university status 366Ka Ho Mok and Yuyang Kang28 The geopolitics of university rankings: not all regions and universitynetworks stand equal 382Angel Calderon29 The treacherous adventure of ranking African universities 399Damtew Teferra30 Reputational risk rating and the commercialisation of higher education 412Hamish Coates, Lu Liu and Xi Hong31 University rankings and governance by metrics and algorithms 424George Chen and Leslie Chan32 The business of university rankings: the case of Times Higher Education 442Miguel Antonio LimPART VI POLICY ISSUES AND RESPONSES33 Do rankings promote academic excellence? World-class universities inperspective 453Jamil Salmi34 Why research matters: Latin America facing world-class universitiesand rankings 471Alma Maldonado-Maldonado and Christian Ivan Cortes Velasco35 Football lessons for universities or how to go beyond ranking 484Sebastian Stride, Yoran Beldengrun, Ruggero Cortini, AnnamariaDonnarumma, Nicolau Duran, Xavi Gimenez, Matthias Heuser, FrancescoMassucci, Sabine Plaud, Guillem Rull and Sonia Veiga36 Are global rankings compatible with higher education policy? 507Thomas Zacharewicz, Koen Jonkers and Ellen Hazelkorn37 Global rankings and the dynamics of global convergence and localdivergence in higher education 522Dirk Van DammeIndex

Review

'The authors give a comprehensive review and analysis of the impact of global university rankings since their establishment in 2003.' -- Hester Klopper, Daily Maverick South Africa'This book is a must-have for higher education policymakers, administrators, and researchers who are directly involved in all aspects of university performance.' -- Ruth A Pagell, Emory University'The Research Handbook on University Rankings contains informative studies introducing theoretical frameworks, methodological tensions, influences and impacts that university global rankings have brought into higher education systems and individual institutions in the context of globalization and internationalization. Looking back over 20 years, the monograph consisting 37 chapters in six themes extensively analyses related ranking issues in the past as well as explores the new modes and imaginaries for future development.' -- Angela Yung Chi Hou, International Journal of Chinese Education'The Research Handbook on University Rankings offers a highly useful and wide-ranging look at the influential role of global rankings, including a frank assessment of the good, the bad and the ugly. National case studies in particular give the reader an understanding of the global drive for metrics and standardized evaluations of university performance, and the actual impact on funding, policies and the behaviors of individual institutions. What is the future of the proliferation of ranking enterprises? The chapters seem to indicate that they will live on as powerful consumer guides for prospective students in the post-COVID era of global talent mobility, but perhaps are waning as an instigator of government policies.' -- John Aubrey Douglass, University of California, Berkeley, US'An enlightening Handbook on everything you always wanted to know about rankings but could not find an answer to: highly reflexive contributions on rankings themselves; challenging analysis of their impact on globalizing higher education and science and on national and institutional policies in different country settings; diving into the business of rankers and publishers; case studies of universities seeking for improved ranks. . . All facets of rankings are scrutinized.' -- Christine Musselin, CNRS and Sciences Po, France'The Research Handbook on University Rankings offers a highly useful and wide ranging look at the influential role of global rankings, including a frank assessment of the good, the bad and the ugly. National case studies in particular give the reader an understanding of the global drive for metrics and standardized evaluations of university performance, and the actual impact on funding, policies and the behaviors of individual institutions. What is the future of the proliferation of ranking enterprises? The chapters seem to indicate that they will live on as powerful consumer guides for prospective students in the post-COVID era of global talent mobility, but perhaps are waning as an instigator of government policies.' -- John Aubrey Douglass, UC Berkeley, US'With 20 major university rankings, and counting, we badly need better to understand this trend which nearly everyone simultaneously loves and hates. This Research Handbook is a major contribution to that understanding, putting rankings for the first time in their proper context, theoretically and in terms of policy.' -- Peter Scott, UCL Institute of Education, UK'If you read only one book about the "whys", the "hows" and the "impacts" of higher education rankings, this volume is it. Taking both a historical and an international perspective on this global phenomenon, this collection of articles offers expert views on the changes rankings have brought to the world of higher education locally, globally and in terms of each university mission, as well as an analysis of the methodological and political issues rankings raise. A comprehensive reflection on rankings – now a permanent fixture in the higher education policy landscape – well worth reading.' -- Eva Egron-Polak, Former Secretary General, Senior Fellow, International Association of Universities

Review Quote

'The Research Handbook on University Rankings offers a highly useful and wide ranging look at the influential role of global rankings, including a frank assessment of the good, the bad and the ugly. National case studies in particular give the reader an understanding of the global drive for metrics and standardized evaluations of university performance, and the actual impact on funding, policies and the behaviors of individual institutions. What is the future of the proliferation of ranking enterprises? The chapters seem to indicate that they will live on as powerful consumer guides for prospective students in the post-COVID era of global talent mobility, but perhaps are waning as an instigator of government policies.'

Details ISBN1788974972 Short Title Research Handbook on University Rankings Series Elgar Handbooks in Education Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1788974972 ISBN-13 9781788974974 Format Hardcover Subtitle Theory, Methodology, Influence and Impact Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Cheltenham Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 584 Publication Date 2021-12-14 AU Release Date 2021-12-14 NZ Release Date 2021-12-14 UK Release Date 2021-12-14 Author Georgiana Mihut Edited by Georgiana Mihut DEWEY 378 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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