Global network centrality of university rankings.

ABSTRACT: Universities and higher education institutions form an integral part of the national infrastructure and prestige. As academic research benefits increasingly from international exchange and cooperation, many universities have increased investment in improving and enabling their global connectivity. Yet, the relationship of university performance and its global physical connectedness has not been explored in detail. We conduct, to our knowledge, the first large-scale data-driven analysis into whether there is a correlation between university relative ranking performance and its global connectivity via the air transport network. The results show that local access to global hubs (as measured by air transport network betweenness) strongly and positively correlates with the ranking growth

SUBMITTER: Guo W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5666288 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature