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标题：Ranking Regime and the Future of Vernacular Scholarship
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作者：Mayumi Ishikawa
期刊名称：Education Policy Analysis Archives
印刷版ISSN：1068-2341
电子版ISSN：1068-2341
出版年度：2014
卷号：22
期号：0
页码：30
语种：English
出版社：Arizona State University
摘要：World university rankings and their global popularity present a number of far-reaching impacts for vernacular scholarship. This article employs a multidimensional approach to analyze the ranking regime’s threat to local scholarship and knowledge construction through a study of Japanese research universities. First, local conditions that have led to the perpetuation of the world university rankings are examined. Next, the use of bibliometric indicators in performance assessment, a critical consequence of the popularization of the world university rankings, is tested against two prevailing factors in Japanese academia: the bipolar character of academic publishing and institution-centered audit. Despite high-flying idealism, the quest to improve positions in the rankings may fall short of addressing real needs of enhancing individual performance in pursuit of globally relevant research and ensuring equity among different generations of scholars. The study also points to the precarious future of vernacular scholarship, as the rankings celebrate audit culture and export its norms as well as an increasingly inward-looking propensity of Anglo-American academic circles to the rest of the world.
关键词：world university rankings;Japan;vernacular research;journal citation;audit culture;rankings universitarios mundiales;Japón;investigación local;citas de revistas;cultura de la auditoría;rankings universitarios mundiais;Japão; pesquisa local ; revista citação ; a cultura de auditoria.