An insight into the importance of national university rankings in an international context: the case of the I-UGR rankings of Spanish universities.

Autor/inn/en	Robinson-García, Nicolás; Torres-Salinas, Daniel; Delgado López-Cózar, Emilio; Herrera, Francisco
Titel	An insight into the importance of national university rankings in an international context: the case of the I-UGR rankings of Spanish universities.
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2014) 2, S.1309-1324 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-014-1263-1
Schlagwörter	Universities; Spain; International rankings; National rankings; Research evaluation
Abstract	Abstract The great importance international rankings have achieved in the research policy arena warns against many threats consequence of the flaws and shortcomings these tools present. One of them has to do with the inability to accurately represent national university systems as their original purpose is only to rank world-class universities. Another one has to do with the lack of representativeness of universities’ disciplinary profiles as they usually provide a unique table. Although some rankings offer a great coverage and others offer league tables by fields, no international ranking does both. In order to surpass such limitation from a research policy viewpoint, this paper analyzes the possibility of using national rankings in order to complement international rankings. For this, we analyze the Spanish university system as a study case presenting the I-UGR Rankings for Spanish universities by fields and subfields. Then, we compare their results with those obtained by the Shanghai Ranking, the QS Ranking, the Leiden Ranking and the NTU Ranking, as they all have basic common grounds which allow such comparison. We conclude that it is advisable to use national rankings in order to complement international rankings, however we observe that this must be done with certain caution as they differ on the methodology employed as well as on the construction of the fields.
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Update	2023/2/05