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Direct linkSoh, Kaycheng – Higher Education Review, 2014
World university rankings (WUR) use the weight-and-sum approach to arrive at an overall measure which is then used to rank the participating universities of the world. Although the weight-and-sum procedure seems straightforward and accords with common sense, it has hidden methodological or statistical problems which render the meaning of the…
Descriptors: Reputation, Correlation, Institutional Evaluation, Statistical Analysis
