Opening the black box of QS world university rankings

Research Evaluation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-78

  Huang, Mu Hsuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

QS rankings; Ranking; World universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863832744     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: 14715449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvr003     Document Type: Article

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