Impact of Global University Ranking Systems on Developing Countries

"The book seeks to offer an opportunity to scholars and other stakeholders from the global south to offer their perspectives on the impact of the global ranking systems on developing countries, and more particularly the global south. The contributions made in the book will be in the form of case studies that will offer in-depth reports on the subject domain; full research papers that will investigate a specific thematic area on university ranking systems; and conceptual papers that will synthesise existing studies. The book will be an additional resource for discussion and discourse as far as the global university ranking systems are concerned and open new frontiers for further research especially as relates to the global south"--

Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha is a Research Professor at the Department of Information Science, University of South Africa. Previously, he worked at the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, as the Deputy University Librarian, and part-time Lecturer at the University of Zululand, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Library and Information Science and is a C2 rated researcher in South Africa. His areas of research interest include Scientometrics; Altmetrics; Information Resource Management (IRM); Management of Information Services; Knowledge Mobilization, Management and Organisation; Media and Information Literacy; and ICTs in LIS Education and Training. He has supervised several academic research projects as well as published extensively in the aforementioned research areas (see https: //www.researchgate.net/profile/Omwoyo_Onyancha/contributions; https: //orcid.org/0000-0002-9232-4939).

Adeyinka Tella is a senior lecturer in the Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Tella is a commonwealth scholar who finished his PhD in September 2009 from the Department of Library and Information Studies, University of Botswana. In 2007, he was awarded a small grant for thesis writing for the PhD students' category by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). He has written and published articles in International, reputable, and refereed journals as well as chapters in books. He is one of the contributors to an information science reference Cases on Successful E-Learning Practices in the Developed and Developing World: Methods for the Global Information Economy . Currently, he is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Library and Information Science, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information Processing and Communication (IJIPC). His research areas include e-learning, information literacy, information communication technology, psychology of information, etc.