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In 2003, in order to enhance the level of national competitiveness in higher education, the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan adopted the SSCI, SCI, and Engineering Index (EI)1, as the gold standard for evaluating the level of research of the nation’s 145 colleges and universities.
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Chou, C.P. (2014). Has Higher Education Lost its Soul?. In: Chou, C.P. (eds) The SSCI Syndrome in Higher Education. Comparative and International Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-407-9_9
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