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Severe language effect in university rankings: particularly Germany and France are wronged in citation-based rankings
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Abstract
We applied a set of standard bibliometric indicators to monitor the scientific state-of-arte of 500 universities worldwide and constructed a ranking on the basis of these indicators (Leiden Ranking 2010). We find a dramatic and hitherto largely underestimated language effect in the bibliometric, citation-based measurements of research performance when comparing the ranking based on all Web of Science (WoS) covered publications and on only English WoS covered publications, particularly for Germany and France.
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Language biases in the coverage of the Science Citation Index and its consequences for international comparisons of national research performance
TN van Leeuwen, HF MOED, RJW Tijssen … (2001)
