Study on Excellence of Academic Discipline for World-class Universities and the Gap analysis for Chinese Top-level Universities-On the basis of ESI World Ranking

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10.2991/ermm-15.2015.14How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Essential Science Indicators, world-class university, 985-project university, discipline ranking, performance-driven development

Abstract

This paper addressed Essential Science Indicators (ESI) as a key performance indicator for universities and focused on analyzing the excellence of academic disciplines from ESI perspective, mainly among world-class universities and Chinese 985-project universities. It illustrated the typical discipline excellence of world-class universities in terms of the quantity of disciplines ranking top 1% in the world ESI, with new insights on the average level of the quantity. Accordingly, it also disclosed the commonalities of world-class universities in keeping a good balance between basic science and applied science. The gap of discipline excellence existing between world-class universities and Chinese universities was investigated. In general, this paper provides a measurable and quantifiable benchmark means for universities to evaluate academic discipline performance, especially meaningful for Chinese universities on their ways to build world-class universities.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yun Yuan
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TI  - Study on Excellence of Academic Discipline for World-class Universities and the Gap analysis for Chinese Top-level Universities-On the basis of ESI World Ranking
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Education Reform and Modern Management
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