Using an adaptation of the popular saying "tell me how public and tell you who you are" may be a general conclusion of the article published today by El Pais on the results of ranking SIR international universities, and posed as the main thought that although English universities published in a volume or significant number, 10 th place worldwide in terms of scientific output, but nevertheless the quality of those same publications less relevant given that the production ranks only 21 th place when talking about the impact in terms of citations received these papers published.
Overall, universities worldwide have been found in international rankings valuable validation tool, marketing and catalyst as compared to other higher education institutions worldwide in order to establish a classification of universities according to the quality of its academic, and there are currently many rankings such as the Shanghai or The Times that provide different rankings worldwide and scientific fields.
Turning to publications, it is clear that this is one of the important tasks of a university professor and becomes the result of research that each catadrático done during the year and allow you to submit articles to journals, papers or communications to Congress or publish books.
Thus, this type of ranking is placing "naked" those universities or scientific fields that are more productive when analyzing his work, although it is common to find multiple debates posed stances contrary the rankings of universities as to according to its perception there are aspects of university life that are not susceptible to quantify.
In my humble opinion, using a scheme proposed many years ago by Ortega y Gasset in his book Mission of the University, these institutions have two main purposes: (1) the teaching of intellectual professions, and (2) the scientific research and the preparation of future researchers.
From these approaches, in my opinion are emerging as central indicators of university life two major aspects: (1) the employability of its graduates, among other indicators not only show the quality of training and teaching each college, but his ability to create networks so that their graduates are inserted in the workplace, and (2) the ability to create and transmit knowledge to society, which again will be indicators that the aforementioned task refereed publications base that underpins many of the aforementioned international rankings, but also should be noted, the ability to transfer this knowledge to industry, governments and local society.
Therefore, a quality university is one that achieves its graduates are inserted into the working world within short time frames, and produces and communicates new knowledge to society, what the rankings say only partially reflected in the latter.
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