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Originally Posted by HitterD
Considering this is a "global" ranking, the bias is far too much in favour of American Universities. Most of the top 20 are american Universities. They may have a great reputation in the USA, obviously, but i doubt that their global reputation is nearly as high.
BTW... I'd take McGill (#42) over U of T (#18) any day
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apparently these are the parameters
the number of highly-cited researchers in various academic fields, the number of articles published in Nature and Science, and the number of articles listed in the ISI Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities indices. Another 40 percent of the score came from equal parts of four measures used by the Times: the percentage of international faculty, the percentage of international students, citations per faculty member (using ISI data), and the ratio of faculty to students. The final 10 percent came from library holdings (number of volumes).
its certainly possible there is NA bias in some of these measures (ie publishing in English language journals probably helps), but I would guess that none of these lists are immune to bias