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Framing “world class” differently: international and Korean participants’ perceptions of the world class university project

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  1. For the international scholars, Engligh was used, and for the Korean principal investigators, Korean was used.

  2. For a more detailed description of keyword category tables, see Appendix.

  3. For a more detailed description of keyword category tables, see Appendix.

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This paper is based upon work supported by the National Research Foundation under the project name of “A Study on the Achievement Evaluation of the World Class University Project.” We thank Jade Jongdae Yi for his extensive help in research modeling and graphical descriptions.

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Appendix: Automatic grouping of keywords and subjectively translated themes

Appendix: Automatic grouping of keywords and subjectively translated themes

International scholars

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Korean investigators (Korean keywords remained as original)

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Jang, DH., Kim, L. Framing “world class” differently: international and Korean participants’ perceptions of the world class university project. High Educ 65, 725–744 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-012-9573-9

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