caa a22 4500 445348135 CHVBK 20180317142835.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-011-0350-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-011-0350-9 Where do Italian universities stand? An in-depth statistical analysis of national and international rankings [Elektronische Daten] [Marco Geraci, M. Degli Esposti] In a previous article (Degli Esposti and Geraci. Bulletin of Italian Politics, 2011), we presented an historical survey of the university reform laws that took place in Italy in the last 30years. On that occasion, we stressed how important is merit evaluation for academics and their institutions, especially in view of the much debated but not yet implemented ‘Gelmini' reform with its long awaited new regulation for accessing academic positions (concorsi) and for determining individual weight in financial resource allocation among universities. Here, we present and compare several rankings used to evaluate the prestige and merit of Italian universities. We also consider alternative approaches to academic rankings that highlight peculiar aspects of the universities in Italy which cannot be reasonably accounted for by other international rankings. Finally, we propose a new approach that combines both national and international standing of Italian universities. It is hoped that this study will provide practical guidance to policy makers for establishing the criteria upon which merit should be assessed. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2011 Ranking nationallicence Higher education nationallicence Principal component analysis nationallicence Correlation nationallicence Reform law nationallicence h -index nationallicence Geraci Marco MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH, London, United Kingdom aut Degli Esposti M. Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Michael Smith building, Oxford Road, M13 9PT, Manchester, United Kingdom aut Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 87/3(2011-06-01), 667-681 0138-9130 87:3<667 2011 87 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0350-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0350-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Geraci Marco MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH, London, United Kingdom aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Degli Esposti M. Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Michael Smith building, Oxford Road, M13 9PT, Manchester, United Kingdom aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 87/3(2011-06-01), 667-681 0138-9130 87:3<667 2011 87 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer