Abstract
This article presents the state of the question about global academic rankings implications in higher education. Among thousands of studies located in international scientific bases, 23 scientific papers were selected as corpus of analysis. Implications were organized into three groups: internationalization and competition; governance and autonomy; and, quality and productivity. The scientific literature presents universities, worldwide, looking for better positions in the academic rankings, eventually supported by national governments, aiming to join the select circuit of World Class Universities. Noteworthy encouraging the internationalization of higher education institutions, especially in Asian countries, by increasing the publication of scientific articles and, often, by the partnerships to import models consolidated from the universities that are in the top of the rankings.
Highlights
This article presents the state of the question about global academic rankings implications in higher education
This article aims to raise the state of the question about the implications of academic rankings2 in higher education based on the trends identified in international scientific literature
The study was inspired on Marginson (2014, p. 47), when he checks the prevalence of studies on characteristics and limitations of rankings, but a little of ones to discuss ranking implications for society and high education institutions (HEI), and points out that “university rankings are critiqued; but surprisingly, they are little critiqued as social science”
Summary
For the construction of this bibliographic description, the following aspects of the 23 selected papers were highlighted: countries of academic linkage of the authors; scientific journals of its publication; bibliographical references; and academic rankings cited
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