The World 100 Reputation Network formed around 2006 when a small group of top universities came together to create a network and undertake research into reputation Follow The World 100 Reputation Network on Twitter We arranged this back to back with our second Chinese study tour, which then took the group on to Peking University and Tshingua, both world class giants Rankings allow us to create impartial frames for our membership and our research field, but they are of course highly subjective tools that do not capture reputation in the sense of aggregated third party opinion