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Guo, Weisi, del Vecchio, Marco and Pogrebna, Ganna (2017) Global network centrality of university rankings. Royal Society Open Science , 4 . pp. 1-13. 171172. doi:10.1098/rsos.171172
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171172
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 (statistical significance in different models ranges between 5% and 1% level). We also found that the local airport’s aggregate flight paths (degree) and capacity (weighted degree) has no effect on university ranking, further showing that global connectivity distance is more important than the capacity of flight connections. We also examined the effect of local city economic development as a confounding variable and no effect was observed suggesting that access to global transportation hubs outweighs economic performance as a determinant of university ranking. The impact of this research is that we have determined the importance of the centrality of global connectivity and, hence, established initial evidence for further exploring potential connections between university ranking and regional investment policies on improving global connectivity.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Universities and colleges -- Ratings and rankings, Air travel, Transit, International, Urban economics | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Royal Society Open Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | The Royal Society Publishing | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2054-5703 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 4 October 2017 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 4 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-13 | ||||||
| Article Number: | 171172 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1098/rsos.171172 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||
| Funder: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Research Councils UK (RCUK), Alan Turing Institute | ||||||
| Grant number: | EP/L016400/1, EP/N028422/1, EP/N510129/1 (EPSRC) |
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