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China and Taiwan now have more universities than the US in the top
- buyucu 1y agoI don't know why this shocks people. China has almost 4 times the population of the US. When China catches up, it will have 4 times the number of top universities.
- jdlshore 1y agoAccording to Wikipedia, the ranking agency is lauded for its objectivity and independence. The ranking is based on these factors: 10% for number of alumni who are Nobel laureates or Fields medalists 20% for number of staff who are Nobel laureates or Fields medalists 20% for number of researchers with highly cited papers 20% for number of papers published in Nature or Science 20% for the number of papers indexed in Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index 10% for “per-capita academic performance” (not sure what this means… student grades, maybe?) I can’t help but see a relationship between “published papers” as a metric and the relatively recent surge in academic fraud. Goodhart’s Law, anyone?
- account42 1y ago> China and Taiwan > the Asian country WTF is this nonsense?