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RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON UNIVERSITY RANKINGS ELGAR HANDBOOKS IN EDUCATION Elgar Handbooks in Education present a comprehensive analysis of the latest scholarly research in education. Edited by prominent experts, each Handbook features a wide range of chapters covering the latest international developments in the field. Often widely-cited, individual chapters offer an overview of the current state of research in education, whilst also creating a forum for challenging current perceptions, and offering new perspectives of how research may develop in the future. Handbooks in the series often take an interdisciplinary approach, assessing the relationship between education and research areas as diverse as tech- nology studies, social policy, public policy and environmental studies. These Handbooks will form a vital reference point for all researchers and students of education, creating a compre- hensive and overarching guide to the field. Research Handbook on University Rankings Theory, Methodology, Influence and Impact Edited by Ellen Hazelkorn Partner, BH Associates and Professor Emerita, Technological University Dublin, Ireland and Joint Editor, Policy Reviews in Higher Education Georgiana Mihut Assistant Professor, Department of Education Studies, University of Warwick, UK ELGAR HANDBOOKS IN EDUCATION Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA © Ellen Hazelkorn and Georgiana Mihut 2021 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited The Lypiatts 15 Lansdown Road Cheltenham Glos GL50 2JA UK Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. William Pratt House 9 Dewey Court Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2021947694 This book is available electronically in the Political Science and Public Policy subject collection http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781788974981 ISBN 978 1 78897 497 4 (cased) ISBN 978 1 78897 498 1 (eBook) EEP BoX Contents List of boxes ix About the editors and contributors x Foreword: reflections on rankings xxiii Philip G. Altbach List of abbreviations xxxi 1 Introduction: putting rankings in context ‒ looking back, looking forward 1 Ellen Hazelkorn and Georgiana Mihut PART I CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL FRAMINGS 2 The reality underneath the rankings: trends in global science 19 Simon Marginson 3 How do we know what we know? Empirical methodologies for studying college rankings 38 Jeongeun Kim and Michael Bastedo 4 Rankings and global knowledge governance 54 Tero Erkkilä and Ossi Piironen 5 Theorizing university rankings by comparison: systematic and historical analogies with arts and sports 67 Jelena Brankovic, Leopold Ringel and Tobias Werron 6 Researching and understanding the influence of rankings on higher education institutions: logics, methodologies and conceptualisations 80 William Locke 7 Benchmarking and zeitgeist: university ranking in post-turbo-globalized neoliberalism (Post-TGNL) 93 Hans Peter Hertig PART II METHODOLOGICAL TENSIONS 8 Multidimensional taxonomy of university rankings 106 Enrique Orduña-Malea and Carmen Perez-Esparrells 9 What do global rankings try to measure? Global university ranking methodologies since 2003 127 Richard Holmes v vi Research handbook on university rankings 10 Rankings and internationalization: an unfortunate alliance 137 Gerardo L. Blanco, Laura E. Rumbley and Hans de Wit 11 Gender equality: a neglected or rhetorical dimension of rankings in higher education? 150 Pat O’Connor 12 University rankings and the third mission of higher education 163 Robert Kelchen 13 How future-proof are world university rankings? The case of the Most Innovative Universities ranking 171 Robert Tijssen PART III INSTITUTIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND THE QUALITY AGENDA 14 Quality assurance and rankings: some European lessons 185 Andrée Sursock 15 Higher education system rankings and benchmarking 197 Cláudia S. Sarrico and Ana Godonoga 16 Institutional responses to university rankings: a tale of adaptation and cognitive framing 210 Andrea Bonaccorsi, Paola Belingheri, Brigida Blasi and Sandra Romagnosi 17 Reimaging university identities through rankings in Japan: the transformation of national policies and university behaviours in the broader East Asian context 231 Akiyoshi Yonezawa 18 Striving for excellence in the age of rankings: insights from two leading research universities in Latin America 247 Andrés Bernasconi and Marcelo Knobel 19 Conflating perception and purpose: the University of Louisville and the prominence challenge 262 Tara K. Ising and James D. Breslin 20 Are university rankings still important? Perspectives from Greater China 278 William Yat Wai Lo and Shuiyun Liu PART IV EQUITY, TEACHING AND STUDENT CHOICE 21 The implications of rankings for equity in higher education 295 Laura W. Perna, Jeremy Wright-Kim and Julia Brickfield 22 University rankings and students’ information needs: what is the relation? 307 Jens Jungblut, Bjørn Stensaker and Martina Vukasovic Contents vii 23 Does teaching count? The relationship between US News & World Report faculty resource measures and students’ experiences with faculty 320 John Zilvinskis, Louis M. Rocconi and Alexander C. McCormick 24 Teaching and learning in university rankings: a critical review and reassessment 329 Kyle T. Fassett and Alexander C. McCormick 25 Learning gain in excellence frameworks and rankings 340 Camille Kandiko Howson PART V (GEO)POLITICS OF HIGHER EDUCATION 26 Ideas for theorizing the geopolitics of higher education in the global rankings era 354 Brendan Cantwell 27 A critical review of the history, achievements and impacts of China’s quest for world-class university status 366 Ka Ho Mok and Yuyang Kang 28 The geopolitics of university rankings: not all regions and university networks stand equal 382 Angel Calderon 29 The treacherous adventure of ranking African universities 399 Damtew Teferra 30 Reputational risk rating and the commercialisation of higher education 413 Hamish Coates, Lu Liu and Xi Hong 31 University rankings and governance by metrics and algorithms 425 George Chen and Leslie Chan 32 The business of university rankings: the case of Times Higher Education 444 Miguel Antonio Lim PART VI POLICY ISSUES AND RESPONSES 33 Do rankings promote academic excellence? World-class universities in perspective 455 Jamil Salmi 34 Why research matters: Latin America facing world-class universities and rankings 473 Alma Maldonado-Maldonado and Christian Cortes-Velasco viii Research handbook on university rankings 35 Football lessons for universities or how to go beyond ranking 486 Sebastian Stride, Yoran Beldengrün, Ruggero Cortini, Annamaria Donnarumma, Nicolau Duran, Xavi Gimenez, Matthias Heuser, Francesco Massucci, Sabine Plaud, Guillem Rull and Sonia Veiga 36 Are global rankings compatible with higher education policy? 509 Thomas Zacharewicz, Koen Jonkers and Ellen Hazelkorn 37 Global rankings and the dynamics of global convergence and local divergence in higher education 524 Dirk Van Damme Index 538 Boxes Box 1.1 Major global rankings, 2021 (according to date of origin) 5 Box 13.1 World’s most innovative universities: data methodology 175 Box 33.1 Creating dynamic clusters: The Cambridge Model 466 Box 36.1 A limited direct impact of global rankings on policymaking processes 513 Box 36.2 Public diffusion of rankings 514 Box 36.3 Diffusion of ranking results by a sample of EU universities 514 Box 36.4 Rankings and research performance-based funding schemes 519 ix
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