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The evaluation of the universities appears to be of considerable interest both at national level, through the Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR), and at international level, through the International Rankings, produced by the various agencies. The rankings are an important communication tool that allows for comparing the universities according to combinations of suitably weighted parameters. The aim of this work is to deepen the methodological aspects of the rankings, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of these tools. In addition, we will focus on some of the international rankings, synthetically analyzing the indicators considered and the positioning of Italian universities in recent years.
The contribution is the result of joint reflections by the authors, with the following contributions attributed to M. Cazzolle (chapter 4), to P. Perchinunno (chapter 1 and 5), and to V. Ricci (chapters 2 and 3).
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Cazzolle, M., Perchinunno, P., Ricci, V. (2018). The Positioning of Italian Universities in the International Rankings. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2018. ICCSA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10962. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95168-3_4
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