International ranking systems for universities and institutions: a critical appraisal

Open Access

25 October 2007

journal article
Published by Springer Nature in BMC Medicine

Vol. 5 (1) , 30
https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-5-30

Abstract

Ranking of universities and institutions has attracted wide attention recently. Several systems have been proposed that attempt to rank academic institutions worldwide.

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