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Multivariate dynamics of Spanish universities in international rankings
- Source :
- El profesional de la información.
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Ediciones Profesionales de la Informacion SL, 2021.
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Abstract
- Global rankings help boost the international reputation of universities, which thus attempt to achieve good positions on them. These rankings attract great interest each year and are followed attentively by stakeholders in higher education. This paper investigates the trajectory of Spanish universities in the ARWU and THE rankings over the last 5 years using the dynamic biplot technique to study the relationship between a multivariate dataset obtained at more than one time point. The results demonstrate that Spanish universities achieve low positions on international rankings when analyzed using this multivariate and dynamic approach. Indeed, only a small percentage occupy good positions in both studied rankings and stand out in terms of some of the indicators, whereas most achieve weak scores in the global context. Spanish universities should attempt to improve this situation, since the prestige resulting from a good position on these lists will always be beneficial in terms of the visibility of both the universities themselves and the whole Spanish university system.
- Subjects :
- Multivariate statistics
Higher education
business.industry
Prestige
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05 social sciences
050301 education
Context (language use)
Library and Information Sciences
050905 science studies
Internationalization
Political science
Regional science
Position (finance)
0509 other social sciences
business
0503 education
University system
Information Systems
Reputation
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16992407 and 13866710
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- El profesional de la información
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........c255b1480432a72f32b062c5eed145d2