Ranking Regime and the Future of Vernacular Scholarship.
Ranking Regime and the Future of Vernacular Scholarship.
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排名制度和白话奖学金的未来。
DOI：
10.14507/epaa.v22n30.2014
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发表时间：
2014
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0.4
通讯作者：
M. Ishikawa
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作者：
M. Ishikawa
世界大学排名及其全球知名度对本土学术产生了许多深远的影响。本文以日本研究型大学为例，从多维度分析排名制度对地方学术和知识建构的威胁。首先，审查了导致世界大学排名永久化的当地条件。其次，在绩效评估中使用的文献计量指标，世界大学排名的普及的重要后果，是测试对日本学术界的两个流行因素：学术出版和机构为中心的审计的两极性格。尽管有着崇高的理想主义，但提高排名的努力可能无法满足提高个人表现以追求全球相关研究和确保不同世代学者之间公平的真实的需求。该研究还指出，本土学术的未来岌岌可危，因为排名庆祝审计文化，并将其规范以及英美学术界日益内向的倾向出口到世界其他地区。
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.