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\nSource: Rauhvargers, 2011, p. 13<\/p>\n
In a previous post, this blog SciELO in Perspective tackled the issue of university rankings\u00b9. Comment was made that some are international in scope (Academic Ranking of World Universities \u2013 ARWU, Times Higher Education \u2013 THE, QS Top Universities, Leiden Ranking, Webometrics and SCImago Institutions Ranking \u2013 SIR; others are regional in nature \u2013 taking in only European institutions (U-Map and U-Multirank); and Brazil has a national ranking for its universities known as The University Rankings of Folha \u2013 RUF.<\/p>\n
The first national university rankings were published in the United States in 1983 by US News and World Report. Media organizations or independent agencies produce these university guides, by evaluating and sometimes classifying Institutes of Higher Education by means of a combination of qualitative and quantitative data\u00b2. The proliferation of these rankings in the United States of America, driven by American culture, introduced \u201cdin\u00e2mica de competitividade em sistemas nacionais, o que foi visto como uma influ\u00eancia (positiva) no comportamento institucional, capaz de levar \u00e0 melhora da qualidade\u201d\u00b3 (Hazelkorn 2010). The American experience was the inspiration behind international ranking systems, such as those mentioned above.\u00a0 But it was also the inspiration behind rankings of national scope, instigated by other countries, such as CHE-HochschulRanking, in Germany ; the Melbourne Institute International Standing of Australian Universities and the Good University Guide in Australia ; and the one produced by the Japanese daily paper Asahi Shimbun ; examples of the most recently launched rankings are the U-GR produced by the University of Grenada, in Spain ; the Ranking of Universities \u2013 Clase 13, in Mexico (launched in June 2013 in partnership with the Autonomous University of Mexico \u2013 UNAM, and the journal El Economista) ; and in Brazil, the University Ranking of Folha (RUF) , the first listing of Brazilian Institutes of Higher Education, produced by the newspaper Folha de S\u00e3o Paulo and launched in September 2012. It is now in its second edition, which was released at the start of this month.<\/p>\n
Given that the majority of world rankings include only around 1% to 3% of the institutions (200-500 universities) from the 17,000 or so institutes of higher education worldwide\u2074, in excluding\u00a0 the majority of existing universities, these national ranking have their merit in positioning national institutions which would not normally appear in any listing. In the case of Brazil, it was inevitable that only two or three universities appear in the international rankings. With the RFU it was possible to expand the set 192 universities in the country in its 2013 edition. However, the methodology may yet be subject to criticism, for by including institutions of very different nature\u00a0 and purposes in the same listing \u2013 teaching universities and research universities \u2013 the RUF was innovative in adopting as its yardstick for academic output, in addition to the traditional international database Web of Science, sources that were more in tune with the Brazilian context, such as SciELO.<\/p>\n
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\nSource: Rauhvargers, 2011, p. 13<\/p>\n
There is a growing emergence of disparate listings at different levels \u2013 international, regional and national \u2013 and this diversity shows that a process of standardization and harmonization of the different institutions by means of the criteria which have been adopted by the rankings is impossible.<\/p>\n
According to the exhortation of Adam Habib : \u201cestudos comparativos podem revelar muito e permitir li\u00e7\u00f5es a serem aprendidas a partir de experi\u00eancias variadas s\u00f3 se n\u00e3o esquecerem do contexto\u201d. \u2075 \u00a0(Habib 2011)<\/p>\n
\u00b9 Indicadores de produtividade cient\u00edfica em rankings universit\u00e1rios: crit\u00e9rios e metodologias<\/i>. SciELO em Perspectiva. [viewed 14 September 2013]. Available from: <http:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/15\/indicadores-de-produtividade-cientifica-em-rankings-universitarios-criterios-e-metodologias\/<\/a>>.<\/p>\n \u00b2 HAZELKORN, E. Os rankings e a batalha por excel\u00eancia de classe mundial: estrat\u00e9gias institucionais e escolhas de pol\u00edticas. Rev. Ensino Superior UNICAMP<\/i>, abr 2010, n\u00ba 1, p. 43-64. [viewed 12 September 2013]. Available from: <http:\/\/www.gr.unicamp.br\/ceav\/revistaensinosuperior\/ed01_maio2010\/pdf\/Ed01_marco2010_ranckings.pdf<\/a>>.<\/p>\n \u00b3 Translation: \u201ca competitive drive in national systems which was viewed as a positive influence on institutional behavior, and capable of improving quality\u201d.<\/p>\n \u2074 RAUHVARGERS, A. Global university rankings and their impacts<\/i>. Brussels: European University Association, 2011. (EUA Report on Rankings 2011). [viewed 12 September 2013]. Available from: <http:\/\/www.eua.be\/pubs\/Global_University_Rankings_and_Their_Impact.pdf<\/a>>.<\/p>\n \u2075 Translation: \u201ccomparative studies can reveal much and enable lessons to be learned from multifarious experiences only if we do not forget context\u201d.<\/p>\n HABIB, A. A league apart. Times Higher Education<\/i>, 13 out. 2011. [viewed 14 September 2013]. Available from: http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/417758.article#.Tphc9B–hbM<\/a>.<\/p>\n HAZELKORN, E. Os rankings e a batalha por excel\u00eancia de classe mundial: estrat\u00e9gias institucionais e escolhas de pol\u00edticas. Rev. Ensino Superior UNICAMP<\/i>, abr 2010, n\u00ba 1, p. 43-64. [viewed 12 September 2013]. Available from: <http:\/\/www.gr.unicamp.br\/ceav\/revistaensinosuperior\/ed01_maio2010\/pdf\/Ed01_marco2010_ranckings.pdf<\/a>>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Collaborator on the SciELO program, post-graduate in Information Science from the School of Communication and the Arts of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (PPGCI-ECA-USP), specialist in Health Sciences information at the Federal University of S\u00e3o Paulo in partnership with the Latin American Center for Health Sciences Information (UNIFESP-BIREME-PAHO-WHO), Sibele Fausto is a librarian in the Technical Department of the Integrated Library System of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (DT-SIBi-USP).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Translated from the original in Portuguese<\/a> by Nicholas Cop Consulting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Currently there is a varied panorama of university rankings at different levels – international, regional and national – and the national ones show their importance by being more in tune with the national context than the international rankings, and even use additional sources to rank the Institutions of Higher Learning in their respective countries. …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,7],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-research-evaluation","tag-scholarly-communication"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Refer\u00eancias<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>About Sibele Fausto<\/h3>\n