Limitations and Insights of Best Chinese Subjects Rankings
While Best Chinese Subjects Ranking as a third-party ranking has attracted extensive attention in the field of higher education in China,the limitations of its application have rarely been strictly examined.At present,Best Chinese Subjects Rankings has some limitations,such as distorted"long tail distribution",system-atic deviation in the evaluation of humanities and social sciences,invalidity of indicators for teaching,and bias in the selection of top journals.However,it can still provide some insights,especially for local universities,in finding"dark horse"disciplines,showing competitive fields of local universities,suggesting the strategic signifi-cance of breakthrough key indicators,monitoring the development of local first-class disciplines,selecting disci-pline benchmarks and making discipline development strategy.
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