GOTO Rankings Considered Helpful
General Literature
2019-04-26 v2 Digital Libraries
Abstract
Rankings are a fact of life. Whether or not one likes them, they exist and are influential. Within academia, and in computer science in particular, rankings not only capture our attention but also widely influence people who have a limited understanding of computing science research, including prospective students, university administrators, and policy-makers. In short, rankings matter. This position paper advocates for the adoption of "GOTO rankings": rankings that use Good data, are Open, Transparent, and Objective, and the rejection of rankings that do not meet these criteria.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1807.00071,
title = {GOTO Rankings Considered Helpful},
author = {Emery Berger and Stephen M. Blackburn and Carla Brodley and H. V. Jagadish and Kathryn S. McKinley and Mario A. Nascimento and Minjeong Shin and Lexing Xie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.00071},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Accepted, to appear in Communications of the ACM