Open Access"Anchoring" the World University Rankings
Author(s) -
Nicholas A. Bowman,
Michael N. Bastedo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2372-4501
pISSN - 1084-0613
DOI - 10.6017/ihe.2011.65.8578
Subject(s) - reputation , anchoring , political science , higher education , ranking (information retrieval) , key (lock) , business , marketing , public relations , economics , psychology , social psychology , computer science , law , computer security , machine learning
Reputation scores are a key problem with international rankings. Our study shows that the initial Times Higher Education rankings had a disproportionate impact on people's assessment of international university reputations.