Professor Nian Cai Liu
Nian Cai Liu is a Co-Investigator on CGHE Project 8, ‘Local and global public good of higher education: 10 nation study’.
Prof. Liu is currently the Director of the Center for World-Class Universities and the Dean of the School of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include world-class universities and research universities, university evaluation and academic ranking, globalization and internationalization of higher education. His recent books include “World-Class Universities: Global Trends and Institutional Models” and “China and Europe on the New Silk Road: Connecting Universities Across Eurasia”. He is a member of the editorial/advisory board of several international and national journals, including Research Evaluation, International Higher Education. The Academic Ranking of World Universities, an online publication of his group since 2003, has attracted worldwide attentions.
You can view Prof. Liu’s full profile and CV here.
CGHE publications
CGHE research projects
Select recent publications
- Rethinking Higher Education in China as a Common Good
Higher Education, 2019 - World-Class Universities: Towards a Global Common Good and Seeking National and Institutional Contributions
Leiden/Boston: Brill/Sense Publisher, 2019 - The Hierarchical Status of International Academic Awards in Social Sciences
Scientometrics, 2018 - “Academic Ranking of World Universities: Methodologies and Trends”, invited chapter in Francisco J. Cantu-Ortiz, ed., Research Analytics: Boosting University Productivity and Competitiveness through Scientometrics
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2017
