International ranking systems for universities and institutions: A critical appraisal

BMC Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ioannidis, John P A ^a,b,c   Patsopoulos, Nikolaos A ^a   Kavvoura, Fotini K ^a   Tatsioni, Athina ^a,c   Evangelou, Evangelos ^a   Kouri, Ioanna ^a   Contopoulos Ioannidis, Despina G ^a,d   Liberopoulos, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZATION; UNIVERSITY; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CHINA; CONSENSUS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LETTER; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

CHINA; CONSENSUS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NOBEL PRIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 37849027280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-5-30     Document Type: Article

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