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Webometrics Ranking of World Universities

Do you know it is the largest academic ranking of higher education institutions

The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is an initiative by the Cybermetrics Lab i.e. a research group of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), recognised as the largest Spanish public research body. Incepted in 2004, it intends to offer full coverage of Higher Education Institutions (HEI’s) irrespective of the country or discipline. Currently, it ranks 30,000 HEIs from more than 200 countries. It’s the 18th year of publication this year.

Indicators	Meaning	Methodology	Source	Weight
Visibility	Web contents impact	Number of external networks (subnets) linking to the institution's webpages (normalized and then average value)	Ahrefs Majestic	50%
Transparency (or openness)	Top cited researchers	Number of citations from Top 110 authors (excl. top 10 outliers)	Google Scholar Profiles	10%
Excellence (or scholar)	Top cited papers	Number of papers amongst the top 10% most cited in each one of the 26 disciplines of the full database Data for the five years: 2015-2019	Scimago	40%

The Ranking Web or Webometrics is known as the largest academic ranking of higher education institutions. It offers an independent, objective, and open scientific exercise for reliability, up-to-date, multidimensional, and useful information w.r.t performance of universities across the world every six months.

The main objective of the Ranking Web is to encourage open access to the knowledge produced by a university. The Ranking Web editors are scientists working in world-class public research institutions with considerable experience in metrics-guided evaluation. The rankings are a research project and changes in the methodology are in line with the new findings or the availability of sources. The next Webometrics Ranking is expected to come out in July.

Top 20 universities by Webometrics Ranking (January 2021 Edition)

Rank	Institution	Location	Impact Rank	Openness Rank	Excellence Rank
1	University of Washington	US	6	25	9
2	Cornell University	US	5	3	24
3	Johns Hopkins University	US	18	10	8
4	Yale University	US	10	2	26
5	University of California-San Diego	US	30	1	19
6	University of Toronto	Canada	35	4	11
7	University of Wisconsin Madison	US	13	5	43
8	Pennsylvania State University	US	11	11	51
9	New York University	US	26	8	40
10	Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule ETH Zurich	Switzerland	42	12	32
11	Ohio State University	US	43	26	42
12	University of Florida	US	33	7	61
13	Harvard University	US	1	5963	1
14	Washington University Saint Louis	US	40	6	65
15	University of Pittsburgh	US	50	17	56
16	Carnegie Mellon University	US	19	9	146
17	University of Melbourne	Australia	100	22	23
18	University of Edinburgh	UK	56	31	52
19	University of New South Wales	Australia	83	27	37
20	Boston University	US	47	13	86