Multivariate dynamics of Spanish universities in international rankings
| Autor: | María-Purificación Vicente-Galindo, María-Purificación Galindo-Villardón, Helena Martín-Rodero, María-Teresa Gómez-Marcos, Marcelo Ruiz-Toledo, Claudio Ruff-Escobar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Multivariate statistics
Higher education business.industry Prestige media_common.quotation_subject 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 media_common |
| Zdroj: | El profesional de la información. |
| ISSN: | 1699-2407 1386-6710 |
| DOI: | 10.3145/epi.2021.mar.10 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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