2022
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-022-04551-y
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A heuristic approach based on Leiden rankings to identify outliers: evidence from Italian universities in the European landscape

Abstract: We propose an innovative use of the Leiden Rankings (LR) in institutional management. Although LR only consider research output of major universities reported in Web of Science (WOS) and share the limitations of other existing rankings, we show that they can be used as a base of a heuristic approach to identify “outlying” institutions that perform significantly below or above expectations. Our approach is a non-rigorous intuitive method (“heuristic”) because is affected by all the biases due to the technical c… Show more

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