IS THERE A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE INSTITUTIONAL SUCCESS OF UNIVERSITIES IN WEBOMETRIC RANKING SYSTEM AND THEIR POPULARITY ON FACEBOOK? A HOLISTIC CASE OF TURKISH UNIVERSITIES

178. Risk Ranking System for Chemical Warfare Terrorist Agents

10.3320/1.2757850 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

D. Kirby ◽

L. Hall ◽

R. Wheaton ◽

K. Warren

Keyword(s):

Chemical Warfare ◽

Ranking System ◽

Risk Ranking

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»Gender« and (a-)symmetry

Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie ◽

10.28937/1000106592 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2011 (2) ◽

pp. 377-400 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Anna Schober

Keyword(s):

Social Condition ◽

The Self ◽

The Social ◽

Institutional Success

In recent years cultural definitions of »gender« have had extraordinary institutional success. This paper analyses visual worlds that have been motivated by constructivist gender concepts that often display a pronounced symmetry. It relates them to competing images which present difference as scandal, as a mirrored form of the self, or as figurations, and which politicize a-symmetrical forms. The study looks into the social condition of publicity that is constituted by such »picture acts«.

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Global Competitiveness, Privatization, Dignified Spaces, and Curricular Reform in Indian Higher Education

10.1093/oso/9780199480654.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Kanti Bajpai

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Public Policy ◽

Hong Kong ◽

South Korea ◽

Curricular Reform ◽

Policy Studies ◽

Ranking System ◽

Global Competitiveness ◽

Indian Higher Education

Every ranking system rates Indian universities poorly against their Asian counterparts in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea, and in some cases, even universities in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. The question then is why, given that in 1947 it could fairly be said that at least a dozen Indian universities were leaders in Asia and were of international repute, Indian universities are in an egregious condition. This chapter essays some answers. It also argues for curricular reform, in particular for the introduction of public policy studies at the major Indian universities.

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A complementary webometric ranking system based on the website quality and traffic measures: A study focusing on top-ranked world universities

Education for Information ◽

10.3233/efi-200422 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Sajjad Farashi ◽

Saeed Bashirian

Keyword(s):

Weight Vector ◽

Quality Factors ◽

Ranking System ◽

Web Based ◽

Website Quality ◽

Scientific Advancement ◽

Standard Models ◽

Algorithm Framework ◽

Scientific Results ◽

Optimal Weight Vector

Ranking of universities regarding their web-based activities plays a pivotal role in promoting scientific advancement since it motivates the open access accessibility to scientific results. In this study, a new ranking system based on the website quality factors and traffic evaluation was proposed. Since top-ranked universities are usually considered as the standard models for lower ranked ones, the focus of this study was on top-ranked universities. The proposed ranking was compared with well-known Webometrics ranking system. The website traffic and quality assessment were acquired for websites of top-ranked world universities and the correlation between these indices and the Webometrics ranking was evaluated. The summation of the weighted value of obtained measures according to an optimal weight vector obtained by a genetic algorithm framework was used for ranking purposes. The results showed that the website total traffic size was correlated with Webometrics rank (R≈-0.6, p< 0.01). Also, using the weighted value of website quality and traffic measures, the proposed ranking system could predict Webometrics ranking by the accuracy of up to 69%. Even though the method was proposed for universities, it could be applied for ranking other types of centers or companies, provided that the suitable cost function for the genetics algorithm framework was defined.

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