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ARWU ranking uncertainty and sensitivity: What if the award factor was Excluded?

Author(s) -

Dobrota Milan,

Dobrota Marina

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of the association for information science and technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903

H-Index - 145

eISSN - 2330-1643

pISSN - 2330-1635

DOI - 10.1002/asi.23527

Subject(s) - ranking (information retrieval) , certainty , impact factor , medal , statistics , sensitivity (control systems) , reliability (semiconductor) , confidence interval , computer science , econometrics , operations research , information retrieval , mathematics , political science , engineering , geography , law , physics , electronic engineering , power (physics) , geometry , archaeology , quantum mechanics

The A cademic R anking of W orld U niversities ( ARWU ) uses six university performance indicators, including “Alumni” and “Awards”—the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals. These two indicators raised doubts about the reliability of this ranking method because they are difficult to cope with. Recently, a newsletter was published featuring a reduced ARWU ranking list, leaving out Nobel Prize and Fields Medal indicators: the Alternative Ranking (Excluding Award Factor). We used uncertainty and sensitivity analyses to examine and compare the stability and confidence of the official ARWU ranking and the Alternative Ranking. The results indicate that if the ARWU ranking is reduced to the 4‐indicator Alternative Ranking, it shows greater certainty and stability in ranking universities.

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