Impact of rankings

Higher Education Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2012, Pages 71-81

  van Vught, Frans A ^a   Westerheijden, Don F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

High Education; High Education Institution; High Education Sector; High Education System; League Table

Indexed keywords

EID: 84999891727     PISSN: 15710378     EISSN: 22151923     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-3005-2_5     Document Type: Chapter

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