Global Status, Intra-Institutional Stratification and Organizational Segmentation: A Time-Dynamic Tobit Analysis of ARWU Position Among U.S. Universities

Minerva

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 195-223

  Cantwell, Brendan ^a   Taylor, Barrett J ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic competition; Global rankings; Global universities; Tobit analysis; US higher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878107901     PISSN: 00264695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11024-013-9228-8     Document Type: Article

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