Sonja Berghoff holds a Ph.D. in Statistics (Universität Dortmund), where she also was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Statistics. Since 2000 she is affiliated to the CHE (Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung – Centre for Higher Education Development), an independent German reform think tank for higher education and has developed what is considered to be the most sophisticated university ranking in Germany. Her activities at the CHE especially focus on the research indicators taken into account in the ranking. She is responsible for bibliometric analyses for all disciplines and has co-operated in several statistic assessment projects based on data from the CHE Ranking or other sources.
Catherine Dehon, et al.
University rankings are “hot”. Some universities, policy makers and journalists seem to take them quite seriously. At the same time, however, they are also fiercely criticized. The best known worldwide rankings tend, for instance, to have a strong anglo-saxon bias and tend to give insufficient valorisation to human sciences. plus d'information