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Article Dans Une Revue The Journal of Socio-Economics Année : 2012

On some flaws of university rankings: The example of the SCImago report

Louis de Mesnard

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Using France as our main example, we show there is a much scope for improving the SCImago ranking. We detect problems of nomenclature, double affiliation, aggregation and of bias toward large public-funded research organizations. The output per scholar is more important than the output per organization. The examples we cite suggest that only detailed knowledge of the situation can help in addressing the issue and take us beyond any automatic reading of the metadata.
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hal-00700684 , version 1 (23-05-2012)

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Louis de Mesnard. On some flaws of university rankings: The example of the SCImago report. The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2012.04.011. ⟨hal-00700684⟩
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