European Universities in a Global Ranking of Political Science Departments

Bibliographic Data

ID12869753
AuthorsSimon Hix (0000-0002-3116-5292, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume3
Issue2
Pages5-23
Publication date2004-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1680-4333 • E-ISSN: 1682-0983
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1057/eps.2004.2
OpenAlexW1966349715
LanguageEN
Citations received14

Rankings of departments are key Information tools for central administrations of universities, public and private funders of research, and students and faculty. For example, to find out how European universities perform compared to institutions in the United States, the European Economics Association commissioned research into the global ranking of economics departments (esp. Coupé, 2003). Applying a similar method in political science to the dominant method used in the natural sciences and economics - looking at the number and impact of articles published in the main journals in the discipline in a given period - produces quite robust results for our discipline (Hix, 2004). One of the advantages of this method is that it enables comparisons to be made across Europe, between Europe and the United States, and within European countries. The next section explains and justifies the method

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