Reputation and reality: Ranking major disciplines in Australian universities

Higher Education

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-28

  Williams, Ross ^a   Van Dyke, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian universities; Performance measures; Ranking disciplines; Reputational measures; Surveys of academics

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349125225     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-007-9086-0     Document Type: Article

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