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On some flaws of university rankings: The example of the SCImago report
Louis De Mesnardsubject
JEL: A - General Economics and Teaching/A.A1 - General Economics/A.A1.A14 - Sociology of EconomicsEconomics and EconometricsInformation retrievalScope (project management)Computer science[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciencesmedia_common.quotation_subjectaggregation[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Financeuniversity rankingagrégation[SHS.INFO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciencesRanking (information retrieval)SCImagoMetadataReading (process)SJRclassement universités[ SHS.ECO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economies and financesAgrégationaffiliation[SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and FinanceJEL : A - General Economics and Teaching/A.A1 - General Economics/A.A1.A14 - Sociology of Economicsmedia_commondescription
International audience; Using France as our main example, we show there is a much scope for improving the SCImago ranking. We detect problems of nomenclature, double affiliation, aggregation and of bias toward large public-funded research organizations. The output per scholar is more important than the output per organization. The examples we cite suggest that only detailed knowledge of the situation can help in addressing the issue and take us beyond any automatic reading of the metadata.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-10-01 |