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Publication network of five Chinese universities Sources: Web of Science database, own compilation and calculation.
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The hegemony of the Western higher education institutions in the global university market is being challenged by China. The top Chinese universities have significantly improved their international ranking positions. When it comes, however, to the ability of universities to attract foreign students and faculty, the Chinese higher education instituti...
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... are the ones with which the analysed universities had the most co-authored publications between 1975 and 2020. 17 The nodes represent the institutions, while the size of edges show the number of co-authored publications during the analysed time period ( Figure 5). ...
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... Tsinghua University seems to be more open: the 'Rest of the world' ratio (rest of the world divided by the total number of institutions (50)) is higher than the 'Innerland' ratio (48.98 compared to 51.02). The difference between the publication networks of the two top Chinese universities can be seen in Figure 5 as well. The universities with the highest 'Rest of the world' ratio are from the European countries and Singapore. ...
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... At the same time, the Web of Science (hereafter, WOS) publication and citation data are used in the Leiden Ranking, which are also inaccurate [33]. However, this method relies too much on the publication and citation of academic papers [34], and one of the results it brings is active academic performance management. is has led many higher education institutions to choose the universities and colleges in their own countries or countries where higher education is well developed to conduct academic cooperation and paper publication to increase the number of papers published and cited, thus improving their performance in ranking [35]. However, this approach will bring negative effects to the publicity of universities [36]. ...
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