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Severe Language Effect in University Rankings: Particularly Germany and France are wronged in citation-based rankings (1012.5199v1)
Published 23 Dec 2010 in cs.DL and physics.soc-ph
Abstract: We applied a set of standard bibliometric indicators to monitor the scientific state-of-arte of 500 universities worldwide and constructed a ranking on the basis of these indicators (Leiden Ranking 2010). We find a dramatic and hitherto largely underestimated language effect in the bibliometric, citation-based measurement of research performance when comparing the ranking based on all Web of Science (WoS) covered publications and on only English WoS covered publications, particularly for Germany and France.