Influência do número de investigadores listados no ranking da Universidade de Stanford na subida das melhores universidades nos rankings internacionais

 

https://19-pacheco-torgal-19.blogspot.com/2024/10/as-universidades-distraidas-que-deixam.html

Ainda na sequência do post anterior, sobre as universidades que foram mais rápidas, as que foram mais lentas e ainda aquelas que muito estranhamente foram extremamente lentas a noticiar os últimos resultados do conhecido e prestigiado ranking de investigadores da Universidade de Stanford, aproveito para partilhar um interessante artigo que foi publicado há poucos dias atrás na revista Applied Economic Letters e que ontem comentei no email abaixo.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504851.2025.2454533?src=

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De: F. Pacheco Torgal 
Enviado: 22 de janeiro de 2025 17:00
Para: H Qi, 

Cc: KH Cao, CK Woo, H Cai
Assunto: Research Letter - How much does the number of top 2% researchers move the global rankings of the world’s top 100 universities?

Dear Colleague

I just read your research letter and found it very interesting. However, I was wondering whether it was a good idea to combine accurate rankings, such as the Shanghai Ranking—widely respected for its focus on measurable and reproducible parameters, including Nobel Prizes—with rankings of lower quality, like THE or QS. These latter rankings have faced significant criticism from some academics. Check a list of negative comments about these rankings at the end of this post. https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2021/06/jornal-publico-volta-dar-destaque-um.html

In my opinion, the Shanghai Ranking has only one significant flaw: its reliance on the flawed Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list. https://pachecotorgal.com/2024/11/20/portugal-a-clear-case-study-highlighting-the-flaws-in-clarivates-hcr-list I hope that those responsible for the Shanghai Ranking will consider switching to the Stanford Ranking, which could be a more robust and reliable alternative. This ranking, is the only one worldwide that fulfills three fundamental conditions, namely the disambiguation condition, the removal of self-citations, and the fractional counting condition, which allows for the neutralization of the artificial advantage of articles with hundreds or thousands of co-authors. Moreover, this ranking offers an added advantage by avoiding the bias towards specific scientific disciplines https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-flawed-clarivate-list-of.html

PS - By the way, are you familiar with the findings of Faria and Mixon (2021)? They discovered that "the marginal impact of an additional academic publication on a scholar’s citations increases that scholar’s pay by anywhere from 2.8% to 8.9%." https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-marginal-impact-of-publication-on.html