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Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
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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 |
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 |
Source: http://www.webometrics.info/en/world
Updated on June 21, 2020
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