A different approach to university rankings

Higher Education

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-18

  Tofallis, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

League tables; Performance measure; University rankings

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255134354     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-011-9417-z     Document Type: Article

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