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Abstract
The Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University has published the Academic Ranking of World Universities on the Internet. The ranking has drawn wide attention worldwide. Within the ranking institutions are ranked according to their academic or research performance. Ranking indicators include the alumni and staff winning major International awards, highly cited researchers in major research fields, articles published in selected top journals and articles indexed by major citation indexes, as well as performance per capita. Methodological problems discussed in the article include quantitative versus qualitative evaluation, evaluation of research versus education, variety of institutions, language of publications, selection of awards and studying and working experience of award winners. The article also discusses technical problems such as definition of institutions, name expression of institutions, merging and splitting of institutions, searching and attribution of publications.
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