Ranking institutions within a university based on their scientific performance: A percentile-based approach

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Over the recent years, the subject of university rankings has attracted a significant amount of attention and sparked a scientific debate. However, few studies on this topic focus on elaborating the scientific performance of university´s institutions, such as institutes, schools and faculties. For this reason, the aim of this study is to design an appropriate framework for evaluating and ranking institutions within a university. The appropriate ranking of the institutions based on the number of published papers, mean normalized citation score (MNCS) and four percentile-based indicators has been obtained using the I-distance method. We applied the proposed framework, and thus scrutinized the University of Belgrade (UB) as the biggest and the best-ranked university in Serbia. Thus, 31 faculties and 11 institutes were compared. Namely, an in-depth percentile-based analysis of the UB papers indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIe) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) for the period 2008-2011 is provided. The results clearly show considerable discrepancies in two occasions: first, when it comes to the question of leading author, and secondly, when it comes to analysing the percentile rank classes (PRs) of groups of faculties.

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Author Biographies

  • Nikola Zornic, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences
    Nikola Zornic is a teaching associate at the Department of Management at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade. After graduation in 2013 at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, he got his MSc at the same faculty, where he specialized in Business Intelligence and Decision Making. In 2014, he enrolled on a post-graduate programme at the same faculty, where he is specializing in Business Statistics.
  • Lutz Bornmann, Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society

    Lutz Bornmann works as a sociologist of science at the Division for Science and Innovation Studies in the Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society. His current research interests include research evaluation, peer review, bibliometrics, and altmetrics. He is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Informetrics, PLOS ONE, Scientometrics, and JASIST. Since 2004, he has published more than 160 papers in journals covered by Web of Science with a total of more than 2300 citations.

  • Milica Maricic, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences

    Milica Maricic is a teaching associate at the Department of Operations Research and Statistics at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade. After graduation in 2014 at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, she enrolled on post-graduate studies at the same faculty, where she is specializing in Business Statistics. In 2015, she enrolled on a post-graduate programme at the University of Belgrade, which is part of the Tempus project INCOMING, where she is specializing Social Sciences and Computing.

  • Aleksandar Markovic, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences

    Aleksandar Markovic is a full professor at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Serbia, where he got his MSc and PhD degrees in Business Decision Making. Areas of his research include business decision making, e-business and simulation methods.

  • Milan Martic, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences

    Milan Martic is a dean and full professor at the Department of Operational Research and Statistics at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade. He defended his PhD thesis in the field of operational research. He has published over 130 scientific papers with emphasis on ISI indexed journals. He is co-author of seven university textbooks. He has acted as a reviewer for many ISI indexed journals. His major interests are data envelopment analysis, efficiency models and operational research.

  • Veljko Jeremic, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences

    Veljko Jeremic is an assistant professor at the Department of Operational Research and Statistics at the Faculty of Organizational Science, University of Belgrade. He finished his PhD thesis in the field of computational statistics. He has published over 60 scientific papers with emphasis on ISI indexed journals. He is co-author of one university textbook. He has acted as a reviewer for many ISI indexed journals such as JASIST, Scientometrics, and Journal of Applied Statistics.

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2015-12-01

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Vol. 100 Núm. 1 (1950)

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Ranking institutions within a university based on their scientific performance: A percentile-based approach. (2015). Profesional De La información, 100(1). https://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/35607