Academic reputation: a proposal for a new scale

This paper deals with evaluation of a new scale, REPAC, for measuring academic reputation with an academic capitalism approach. The scale involves a reduced number of items to measure important aspects of academic reputation, such as academic performan- ce, credibility, student career orientation, and external visibility. The REPAC scale is applied to data from two Italian universities, one public and the other private. Invariance of the construct measurements between universities is tested with statistical methods.