Webometrics Ranking of World Universities

Check the ranking of your university at a global level!

The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is an initiative by the Cybermetrics Lab i.e. a research group of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (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.

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 in every six months
The rankings are currently, it’s the 17th year of publication
You should not confuse the Ranking Web with the ranking of the universities website, as it’s a ranking of universities. Its indicator includes both webometric (all missions) and bibliometric (research mission)
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

Indicators	Meaning	Methodology	Source	Weight
Presence	Public knowledge shared	Size (number of pages) of the main web domain of the institution. It includes all the subdomains that share the same (central/main) web domain	Google	5%
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: 2013-2017	Scimago	35%

Source: https://www.webometrics.info/en/Methodology

Top 20 universities by Webometrics Ranking (January 2020 Edition)

S.No	Institution	Location	Presence Rank	Impact Rank	Openess Rank	Excellence Rank
1	Harvard University	US	1	2	1	1
2	Stanford University	US	3	3	2	2
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US	2	1	4	8
4	University of California Berkeley	US	18	4	3	17
5	University of Washington	US	25	5	56	10
6	University of Michigan	US	12	8	11	7
7	University of Oxford	UK	21	15	8	4
8	Columbia University	US	57	9	8	14
9	Cornell University	US	9	6	17	22
10	University of Pennsylvania	US	41	12	10	15
11	University of Cambridge	US	67	19	6	12
12	University of California (LA)	US	52	17	9	13
13	Yale University	US	74	10	13	20
14	University of Wisconsin Madison	US	29	14	30	34
15	Johns Hopkins University	US	118	34	41	6
16	University of California-San Diego	US	120	29	5	19
17	University of Minnesota System	US	29	18	20	35
18	University of Toronto	Canada	43	38	24	11
19	Duke University	US	48	23	14	21
20	Pennsylvania State University	US	20	11	49	47