Professional Ranking of World Universities

2011 results of the Ecole des Mines ranking. This is the fifth edition, for previous years click here.This school ranking is based on the number of alumni now CEOs (or equivalent) on the Fortune 500 2010 list.Top 5HarvardTokyoKeioHEC, FranceKyoto

Does online access boost citations?

This is the question posed by two researchers in their working paper:Did Online Access to Journals Change the Economics Literature? (SSRN)Mark McCabe, adjunct professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, and Christopher Snyder, economics...

Data visualization tools

Brief round-up of data visualization tools mentioned on the web lately:O’Reilly Radar started a new series this month tagged: Strata GemsExample: using Twitter for graphs:Taken from post.Google Books and Google Labs released: Book Ngram...

New ways to measure impact

This Inside Higher Ed. article: New Measures of Scholarly Impact describes attempts at integrating new metrics in citation analysis and research impact.Eigenfactor is currently looking into how to incorporate real-time usage data, as well as “citation-like...

Tenure expiration date?

Tenure: Mend It, Don’t End It  Arthur Levine describes some the advantages and – in no uncertain terms – gives his views on the weaknesses of the tenure system.More often tenure provides a lifetime of job security not to...