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Four Aussie unis get top 50 nod in ranking of scientific papers
Four Australian universities have been named in the top 50 in a world ranking of scientific papers – one for the first time.
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The ranking contains a 15% weighting for “articles in the current year in high impact journals” . This supports the old school attitude that place of publication is a surrogate variable for quality – whereas the DORA declaration, and numerous other measures, only rank the quality of the work, not place of publication. I recommend they remove this 15% and see how things look.