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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2008 23(5):1774-1775; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm941
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The neglected role of students in international university rankings

Correspondence and offprint requests to: E-mail: kghabili{at}gmail.com

Sir,

We read with great interest the paper by Charon and Wauters on ‘University Ranking’ [1]. The authors mentioned that ‘students need rankings to choose where to study’. But could students also influence the ranking of their universities? The answer is no. Worldwide university rankings have been published since 2003, with an aim to determine the actual standing of higher education institutes of an individual country. Universities are ranked by several indicators: academic quality, research performance, graduate employability and international outlook. Interestingly, no student-oriented criterion has been taken into account in these global classifications. University rankings should not be based on academic and research criteria excluding the students’ role. Therefore, we introduce an index for student participation, defined as the number of publications in which students share the authorship, divided by the total number of students of a given university in the preceding year. This could be an additional criterion for university rankings through which the role of students may be further illuminated.

Conflict of interest statement. None declared.

Kamyar Ghabili1, Mohammadali M. Shoja1 and Shahrokh Ghabili2

1 Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 2 Faculty of Civil Engineering, Tabriz Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

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Editorial Note: Drs Charon and Wauters declined the invitation to reply to this letter.

References

  1. Charon A, Wauters JP. University ranking: a new tool for the evaluation of higher education in Europe. In: Nephrol Dial Transplant (2008) 23:62–64.[Free Full Text]

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