Severe Language Effect in University Rankings: Particularly Germany and France are wronged in citation-based rankings

We applied a set of standard bibliometric indicators to monitor the scientific state-of-arte of 500 universities worldwide and constructed a ranking on the basis of these indicators (Leiden Ranking 2010). We find a dramatic and hitherto largely underestimated language effect in the bibliometric, cit...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2010-12
Main Authors: Anthony F J van Raan, van Leeuwen, Thed N, Visser, Martijn S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliometrics
Citation analysis
Documents
Indicators
Ranking
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Summary:We applied a set of standard bibliometric indicators to monitor the scientific state-of-arte of 500 universities worldwide and constructed a ranking on the basis of these indicators (Leiden Ranking 2010). We find a dramatic and hitherto largely underestimated language effect in the bibliometric, citation-based measurement of research performance when comparing the ranking based on all Web of Science (WoS) covered publications and on only English WoS covered publications, particularly for Germany and France.
ISSN:2331-8422