{"id":965,"date":"2013-03-10T00:09:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T00:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/?p=965"},"modified":"2020-09-22T01:58:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T01:58:35","slug":"video-channels-to-numbers-periodic-tables-deep-sky-and-all-this-molecular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/video-channels-to-numbers-periodic-tables-deep-sky-and-all-this-molecular\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking\u2019s research impact indicator is skewed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harpendon, Southdown Road, Skew Bridge (Credit: Nigel Cox CC2.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[Go<\/a> direct to Uni of Nottingham post<\/em>]<\/p>\n

As well as this blog, I also contribute to a blog<\/a> at The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some of the posts I write for the University of Nottingham blog might also be of interest to a wider audience, so I decided to post a link to selective posts on this blog.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe 2012 Times Higher Education World University Rankings<\/a> consisted of 13 indicators grouped into five clusters. One of these clusters consisted of precisely one indicator, research impact<\/a>, which is measured by normalised citations and which THE considers to be the flagship of the rankings. <\/em><\/p>\n

It is noticeable that this indicator, prepared for THE by Thomson Reuters, gives some universities implausibly high scores \u2026<\/em>\u201d. Read more at Ranking\u2019s research impact indicator is skewed.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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If you want to see all of the posts I have linked to on this blog, I have listed them under the category UNMC R&KT<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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[Go direct to Uni of Nottingham post] As well as this blog, I also contribute to a blog at The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. Some of the posts I write for the University of Nottingham blog might also be of interest to a wider audience, so I decided to post a link to selective […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-unmc-rkt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}