{"id":357,"date":"2019-08-01T10:38:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T10:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blankaonline.com\/\/?p=357"},"modified":"2019-11-05T03:17:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T03:17:03","slug":"the-ranking-methodology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blankaonline.com\/en\/impact\/the-ranking-methodology\/","title":{"rendered":"THE\u2019S RANKING METHODOLOGY: The Importance of the Academic Reputation Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212529;\">Universities looking to improve their global rank need to understand how the ranking systems work. Here, we explain the mechanism behind THE\u2019s ranking system. Improving a university rank is a long process and it\u2019s advisable to do some homework before getting started. THE\u2019s ranking system may give you short- and long-term ideas on making your university more competitive globally.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #db514b;\">Understand the components of THE\u2019s scores\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212529;\">THE\u2019s university ranks are determined by five parameters: Teaching, Research, Citation, Industry Income, and International Outlook. The first three carry a weight of 30% each\u2014that\u2019s a combined weight of 90%. Each component is based on multiple metrics, some provided by the universities themselves and some sourced from Elsevier\u2019s Scopus (the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212529;\">Teaching (30%):<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212529;\">\u00a0The score of the Academic Reputation Survey, a questionnaire-based survey conducted by THE every year, accounts for 50% of the Teaching score. The remaining population- and income-based data are provided by the universities themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212529;\">Research (30%):<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212529;\">\u00a0This is a combination of data from the Academic Reputation Survey, the university\u2019s own data, and the Scopus data. The research income declared by universities is based on the income earned by the researchers. Research productivity is a mix of the university\u2019s data and Scopus data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212529;\">Citation (30%):<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212529;\">\u00a0The Citation score is based on the last 5 years of citations from Scopus. To improve this score, the support of faculty members is needed, but the university management can take many steps on publication policies to influence the score.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212529;\">International Outlook (7.5%):<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212529;\">\u00a0While the weight of this score is lower than that of the above three components, International Outlook may be easier for university management to influence through multiple internationalization initiatives. The population-based data are provided by universities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212529;\">Industry Income (2.5%):<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212529;\">\u00a0This score is solely based on the data provided by each university, so how you define industry income and academic staff has a bearing on the score.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212529;\">A university we interviewed told us that they saw a marginal improvement in their rank after they corrected basic errors in the data they provided to THE. Income- and population-related data; how to define and count students, staff, academic staff, and the percentage of international members; or the extent to which institutional income should be included would differ in each university, and such differences would have an impact on the ranking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212529;\">The Academic Reputation Survey is an indicator of the prestige of universities in research and teaching. The score of the Academic Reputation Survey accounts for 33% of the total scores (forming the biggest component of the ranking methodology). THE randomly chooses the survey respondents from researchers across subjects and locations, and the number of responses is typically over 20,000. The recipient is asked two basic questions, as shown below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<fieldset style=\"border: 5px double #ccbeb3;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #db514b;\">\u00a0Reputation Survey Questions<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Please choose up to 15 institutions from around the world that you regard as producers of the best research in the subject area of xxxx.<\/li>\n<li>Please choose up to 15 institutions from around the world that you regard as the best teaching institutions in the subject area of xxxx.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #db514b;\">Academic Reputation Survey to gauge universities\u2019 creativity<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Renowned global universities with a long history and strong brand tend to get a higher score, and Asian universities, with relatively shorter history than their Western counterparts, tend to be ranked low. However, since the survey does not have any restrictions on the university the respondents can select, universities have the opportunity to promote themselves and improve their score. Universities with a high recall value are those that have more international research collaborators, foreign faculty members, visiting researchers, and foreign students; those with faculty members who present their research more actively in international conferences; and those which globally promote research output by their faculty members through PR activities. Many universities invite interns from all over the world to promote the university through word-of-mouth and in the hope that they will return to the university some day as foreign faculty members.<\/p>\n<p>This is how you create recall value among the survey respondents. There isn\u2019t one way to influence the rank. 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