世界上有许多项大学排名,但各个排名的依据、做法和结果各不相同。为了更好地利用各项排名结果,文章以两种著名的世界大学排名:U.S.News发布的"世界最佳大学"排名和西班牙网络计量实验室发布的"世界大学网络排名"为对象,深入分析和比较两项排名的指标、权重、数据来源和结果,并探讨二者之间的关系。结果表明:世界大学综合竞争力和网络竞争力之间相关性并不高;但是,综合实力表现较好的学校其网络表现不会很落后,且有相当一部分顶尖大学的网络排名亦表现很好;网络排名有一定的特色,是对综合竞争力排名的重要补充。
There are many university rankings over the world.Different university rankings may vary significantly on the guidelines,methodology and result.For the better use of the results,this paper takes two well-known world university rankings for comparative analysis.One is "World's Best Universities" released by U.S.News World Report,the other is "Webometrics Rankings of World Universities" published by Cybermetrics Lab which belongs to CCHS-CSIC at Spanish.From index system,data sources and results,the paper first analyses the two rankings respectively.Then the relationship between them is discussed.The results show that: the correlation between overall university competitiveness and web performance is not high.However,those universities performed better overall always rank ahead of others on the list of web ranking."Webometrics Ranking" is an important complement to overall university rankings,and so on.