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Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
Did 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 (normalised and then average value) | Ahrefs Majestic | 50% |
Transparency (or openness) | Top cited researchers | Number of citations from Top 210 authors (excl. top 20 outliers) | Google Scholar Profiles | 10% |
Excellence (or scholar) | Top cited papers | umber 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 reliable, 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 2022.
Top 20 universities by Webometrics Ranking (January 2021 Edition)
Rank |
Institution |
Location |
Impact Rank |
Openness Rank |
Excellence Rank |
1 |
Harvard University |
US |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
Stanford University |
US |
3 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
US |
1 |
4 |
10 |
4 |
University of California Berkeley |
US |
4 |
3 |
18 |
5 |
University of Michigan |
US |
9 |
10 |
7 |
6 |
University of Oxford |
UK |
15 |
7 |
4 |
7 |
University of Washington |
US |
6 |
64 |
9 |
8 |
Columbia University |
US |
8 |
8 |
13 |
9 |
Cornell University |
US |
5 |
15 |
24 |
10 |
University of Cambridge |
US |
19 |
5 |
12 |
11 |
University of Pennsylvania |
US |
13 |
11 |
14 |
12 |
Johns Hopkins University |
US |
17 |
35 |
8 |
13 |
University of California (LA) |
US |
18 |
9 |
15 |
14 |
Yale University |
US |
11 |
14 |
26 |
15 |
UCL University College London |
UK |
48 |
12 |
6 |
16 |
University of California-San Diego |
US |
27 |
6 |
19 |
17 |
University of Toronto |
Canada |
36 |
22 |
11 |
18 |
University of Wisconsin Madison |
US |
12 |
26 |
44 |
19 |
University of Minnesota System |
US |
14 |
20 |
39 |
20 |
Duke University |
US |
30 |
13 |
27 |
Source: https://www.webometrics.info/en/world
Source: https://www.webometrics.info/en/Methodology
Updated on September 23, 2021
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