"Global University Rankings and their Impact", the European University Association Report on Rankings 2011, by Andrejs Rauhvargers. Available at http://www.eua.be/pubs/Global_University_Rankings_and_Their_Impact.pdf
"A Faustian bargain? Institutional responses to national and international rankings", by Peter W. A. West, Higher Education Management and Policy, 21/1, 2009, pp. 11-18, available at http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/a-faustian-bargain-institutional-responses-to-national-and-international-rankings_hemp-v21-art1-en.
In the same volume, see also "Rankings and the battle for world-class excellence", by Ellen Hazelkorn, pp. 55-76, available at http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/rankings-and-the-battle-for-world-class-excellence_hemp-v21-art4-en