paper

[Yves Gingras]

Hello all

In relation to these additional ³affiliations² one should also think about
how it is manipulated to rise the rank of ³competing² institutions... On
this topic See

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20140204141307557

Your list will now be useful for the kind of institutions that just ³buy²
people at a distance to get their address in their papers...

This ³game² was made public by the journal Science in december 2011. See:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1344.full

Best regards
Yves Gingras


Le 09/07/14 04:36, « Bornmann, Lutz » <lutz.bornmann at GV.MPG.DE> a écrit :

> Thank you for this hint, Isidro! We will change this in the paper. Lutz
>  
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> Dear colleagues,
> 
> The list analyzed by this paper is very important as it is one of the key
> variables used in ARWU, the Shanghai Ranking. The authors point out to
> problems in the "secondary affiliations" of some of these HCR, but dismiss it
> as according to the preprint ARWU is  considering only primary affiliations.
> But after checking the published methodology in the ARWU website:
> 
> http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU-Methodology-2013.html
> 
> the following paragraph appears:
> 
> "The number of Highly Cited Researchers in 21 subject categories. These
> individuals are the most cited within each category. If a Highly Cited
> Researcher has two or more affiliations, he/she was asked to estimate his/her
> weights (or number of weeks) for each affiliation. More than 2/3 of those
> multi-affiliated Highly Cited Researchers provided such estimations and their
> affiliations receive the weights accordingly. For those who did not answer,
> their first affiliation is given a weight of 84% (average weight of the first
> affiliations for those who replied) and the rest affiliations share the
> remaining 16% equally".
> 
> 
> On 09/07/2014 9:21, Bornmann, Lutz wrote:
>> Which of the world's institutions employ the most highly cited researchers?
>> An evaluation of the data from highlycited.com
>> Lutz Bornmann <http://arxiv.org/find/cs/1/au:+Bornmann_L/0/1/0/all/0/1> ,
>> Johann Bauer <http://arxiv.org/find/cs/1/au:+Bauer_J/0/1/0/all/0/1>
>>  
>> A few weeks ago, Thomson Reuters published a list of the highly cited
>> researchers worldwide (highlycited.com). Since the data is freely available
>> for downloading and includes the names of the researchers' institutions, we
>> produced a ranking of the institutions on the basis of the number of highly
>> cited researchers per institution.
>>  
>> Available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2037
>>  
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>>  
>> Dr. Dr. habil. Lutz Bornmann
>> Division for Science and Innovation Studies
>> Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society
>> Hofgartenstr. 8
>> 80539 Munich
>> Tel.: +49 89 2108 1265
>> Mobil: +49 170 9183667
>> Email: bornmann at gv.mpg.de
>> WWW: www.lutz-bornmann.de <http://www.lutz-bornmann.de/>
>> ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3926-2008
>> <http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3926-2008>
>> ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lutz_Bornmann
>> <http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lutz_Bornmann>
>>  
> 
> 


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