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Inconsistencies and Doubtful of World University Rankings Koto, J; Wijaya, A.A; Putrawidjaja, M
Journal of Ocean, Mechanical and Aerospace -science and engineering- Vol 57 No 1 (2018): Journal of Ocean, Mechanical and Aerospace -science and engineering- (JOMAse)
Publisher : International Society of Ocean, Mechanical and Aerospace -scientists and engineers- (ISOMAse)

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University rankings have become a trend to gauge the credibility and quality of the university. The university rating has generated much debate about the usefulness, method and accuracy of the assessment results. There are some institution who issued university rankings such as QS, 4ICU, CWUR and Webometrics. The universities were assessed depending on research indicators and opinion surveys. There are many anomalies in ranking gap values between universities as well some clumsiness of values at certain regions. The inadequacy of those tabulation indicators to assess most universities will look purely for reasons of obvious statistical instability. Statistically, there are three regions of ranking gap values: low, medium and high. Standard deviation of ranking gap values for universities in USA and UK is 6-7, Japan is 16, South Korea is 70, and Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia are no applicable. Those values indicate inconsistency of judgment and invalid and inaccuracy data used in the assessment.
Book Publication Index as a World University Rank Indicator Koto, J; Widjaya, A.A; Putrawidjaja, M
Journal of Ocean, Mechanical and Aerospace -science and engineering- Vol 58 No 1 (2018): Journal of Ocean, Mechanical and Aerospace -science and engineering- (JOMAse)
Publisher : International Society of Ocean, Mechanical and Aerospace -scientists and engineers- (ISOMAse)

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University ranking has indeed become a trend in the world. There are two things behind the growing interest in the use of ranking in the world of higher education they are as a form of accountability and as university strategy to achieve other goals such as prestige, funds, students and also good well known lecturers. This paper proposes Book Publication Index (BPI) as a World University Rank Indicator. In the study, twenty five universities around the world have been taken as case study. The results show that academic staffs of top universities in ASIA and Australia have less interested in writing books. Conversely, academic staffs of top universities in the United States and the United Kingdom have highly an interest in writing books in addition to scientific work. Similarly, Universities in Indonesia focus on publishing books to support their academics.