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  1. Ranking

    Article • August 2024, Center for Open Science

    Jelena Brankovic

  2. Theorizing together

    Article • Distinktion Journal of Social Theory, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Jelena Brankovic

  3. Media Review: Competition: What it is and why it happens Arora-JonssonStefanBrunssonNilsHasseRaimundLagerströmKatarina (Eds.) Competition: What It Is and Why It HappensOxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021. 256 pp.

    Article • Organization Studies, September 2023, SAGE Publications

    Jelena Brankovic

  4. The institutionalization of rankings in higher education: continuities, interdependencies, engagement

    Article • Higher Education, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jelena Brankovic

  5. Making sense of change in higher education research: exploring the intersection of science and policy

    Article • Higher Education, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jelena Brankovic

  6. Spreading the gospel: Legitimating university rankings as boundary work

    Article • Research Evaluation, October 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Jelena Brankovic

  7. Theorizing university rankings by comparison: systematic and historical analogies with arts and sports

    Article • December 2021, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Jelena Brankovic

  8. The emergence of university rankings: a historical‑sociological account

    Article • Higher Education, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jelena Brankovic

  9. “Measure of Shame”: Media Career of the Global Slavery Index

    Article • July 2021, Emerald

    Jelena Brankovic

  10. Why Rankings Appear Natural (But Aren’t)

    Article • Business & Society, May 2021, SAGE Publications

    Jelena Brankovic

  11. Scott M.Gelber, Grading the College: A History of Evaluating Teaching and Learning. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2020. 248 pages. ISBN 9781421438160. $44.95

    Article • Higher Education Quarterly, March 2021, Wiley

    Jelena Brankovic

  12. Unfreiwillige Komplizenschaft: Wie wissenschaftliche Kritik zur Beharrungskraft von Hochschulrankings beiträgt

    Article • January 2021, Nomos Verlag

    Jelena Brankovic

  13. The Organizational Engine of Rankings: Connecting “New” and “Old” Institutionalism

    Article • Politics and Governance, April 2020, Cogitatio

    Jelena Brankovic

  14. Is the Europe of Knowledge the talk of the town? Exploring how members of the European Parliament refer to higher education

    Article • European Journal of Education, January 2019, Wiley

    Jelena Brankovic

  15. How Rankings Produce Competition: The Case of Global University Rankings

    Article • Zeitschrift für Soziologie, October 2018, De Gruyter

    Leopold Ringel, Jelena Brankovic

  16. How Do Meta-organizations Affect Extra-organizational Boundaries? The Case of University Associations

    Article • October 2018, Emerald

    Jelena Brankovic

  17. Inter-institutional differences in defensive stakeholder management in higher education: the case of Serbia

    Article • Studies in Higher Education, November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Jelena Brankovic

  18. Between world culture and local context

    Article • Acta Sociologica, November 2017, SAGE Publications

    Jelena Brankovic

  19. The status games they play: unpacking the dynamics of organisational status competition in higher education

    Article • Higher Education, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jelena Brankovic

  20. Partial Horizontal Differentiation in Croatian Higher Education: How Ideas, Institutions and Interests Shape the Policy Process

    Article • October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jelena Brankovic

  21. The Re-Institutionalization of Higher Education in the Western Balkans

    Article • April 2014, Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers

    Jelena Brankovic

  22. Global Challenges, Local Responses in Higher Education

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jelena Brankovic