Are university rankings useful to improve research? A systematic review

• Marlo M. Vernon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marlo M. Vernon, E. Andrew Balas

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mvernon@augusta.edu

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Digital Health Sciences, College of Allied Health Sciences, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7575-1576

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• E. Andrew Balas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marlo M. Vernon, E. Andrew Balas

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Digital Health Sciences, College of Allied Health Sciences, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Shaher Momani

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics (NAAM) Research Group, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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