[闲话]新闻周刊8月13日的大学排名

下面这段话表明了 newsweek 的这个大学排名所采用的指标和方法：

We evaluated schools on some of the measures used in well-known rankings published by Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Times of London Higher Education Survey. Fifty percent of the score came from equal parts of three measures used by Shanghai Jiatong: the number of highly-cited researchers in various academic fields, the number of articles published in Nature and Science, and the number of articles listed in the ISI Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities indices. Another 40 percent of the score came from equal parts of four measures used by the Times: the percentage of international faculty, the percentage of international students, citations per faculty member (using ISI data), and the ratio of faculty to students. The final 10 percent came from library holdings (number of volumes).

下面是他们的排名结果

1. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
3. Yale University
4. California Institute of Technology
5. University of California at Berkeley
6. University of Cambridge
7. Massachusetts Institute Technology
8. Oxford University
9. University of California at San Francisco
10. Columbia University
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15. Princeton Universitty
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20. University of Chicago
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60. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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应该说，就像以前我们经常玩的“排排坐，分果果”一样，现在人们对于这样的东西向来很有兴趣，不过因为各个大学的排名都有一套自己的指标，而我又并不知道如何去区分这些指标之间的关系，所以我不知道应该怎么样评价这个排名。老实说，我并不喜欢这个排名，尽管它将ust放到了60名的位置，但是我所喜欢的普林斯顿竟然被排在15位上。
你们继续看这个排名，我要找我的眼镜去了。