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Analysts uncovered amazing patterns in the way scientists’ names correlate with whom they publish, and who they cite in their papers - not just in case of a particular country, but globally. Tania Vichnevskaia of the French National Institute for Health (INSERM) presented the paper ‘Applying onomastics to scientometrics‘ at IREG International symposium 2015 organised by University of Maribor and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Collaboration started between NamSor and bibliometric experts at INSERM – the French National Institute for Health- to evaluate and visualize the effects of migration, Diaspora engagement and possibly cultural biases in Science.
Tania Vichnevskaia’s presentation at the conference:
https://namesorts.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/20150119_ireg2015_inserm_namsor_vf.pdf
http://www.slideshare.net/nomtrinamsor/20150119-ireg2015-insermnamsorvf. More...

The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education has released a 45 year trend report that examines equity issues in American tertiary education. Among its highlights is an analysis of the low number, relative to other countries, of US students attending and graduating from colleges and universities. More...

U-Multirank have published ranking on International Orientation. At the institutional level there are four performance indicators: Student Mobility, International Academic Staff, International Joint Publication and International Doctorate Degrees. U-Multirank is a project supported by the European Commission that attempts to provide an alternative to conventional university rankings. Essentially, it consists of a set of ratings rather than an ordered list in which every university is assigned a numerical score. More...

After several days of suspense resulting from hacking and a crashed system at the Cybermetrics Lab in Spain, the twice yearly Ranking Web of Universities has finally been published. There were few surprises at the top. The world rankings were dominated by the United States with the University of Toronto in 17th place being the best non-US institution.
Ranking Web of Universities. More...

By Ryan Parmenter. Ever plodded through flood waters to get to a conference? In late January, the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) held their 3rd annual conference in Venice, Italy at the impressive Ca’ Foscari University. More than 200 experts from universities, governments and agencies converged to discuss the role that fiscal policies can play in greening growth. With the streets filling rapidly with water, nature (influenced by a changing climate) provided extra motivation to act immediately on this issue as participants flocked to indoor heaters and radiators to dry out their drenched shoes and socks. More...

By Arthur Mickoleit & Ryan Androsoff. Research from our recent OECD working paper “Social Media Use by Governments” shows that as of November 2014, out of 34 OECD countries, 28 have a Twitter account for the office representing the top executive institution (head of state, head of government, or government as a whole), and 21 have a Facebook account. More...

Today’s post is the first of two articles by Rupert Read, Reader in Philosophy in the School of Politics, Philosophy and Languages at the University of East Anglia, Chair of Green House and parliamentary candidate for Cambridge for the UK Green Party.
Piketty’s alleged-updating of Marx, Capital in the 21st century, is taking the intellectual world by storm. I’m delighted that such an improbable happening can occur in our rather-impoverished public sphere, and pleased to cheer him on. More...

By Rupert Read. Piketty has shied away from grasping the uncomfortable implication of his own data: that growthist capitalism is an engine for inequality both in the present and over much longer timescales. For growthist capitalism – and there is no other kind – systematically leads to inequality. It leads to inequality-in-the-future in part because the exponential return on debt, so as not to lead to excessive human exploitation, has instead relied on exploitation of the planet as an alternative property-right-claim to reduce the cumulative impact of the impossibility of paying returns to money: but this exploitation results in brutally depleting the future. And it leads to inequality-in-the-present in part because we still insist on paying returns to money anyway, and in most of the world are no closer to implementing a debt-jubilee or even a debt-audit than we were in 2007. More...