Ranking Web (Webometrics) of Universities

[Yves Gingras]

These results show that the ³indicator² is dubious and does not really
indicate anything specific... Instead of writing that the  use of web
domains is ³penalizing their position in the Ranking², one should instead
conclude that using web domains to ³rank² institutions is dubious since it
misrepresent the reality: should institutions adapt to indicators OR should
indicators be adapted to the reality of institutions???... Before
multiplying ³indicators² maybe one should first ask the basic question:
³what on earth does this thing really MEASURE?²


Yves Gingras



Le 31/08/12 05:02, « Isidro F. Aguillo » <isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES> a
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>> Interesting! 
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>> In the ranking for Europe, not a single French university in the 100 first?
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>> (see here: http://www.webometrics.info/en/Ranking_Europe/European_Union)
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>> Best,
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>  Dear all:
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>  You can check the Excellence indicator (papers in the 10% top cited) that
> Paris 6 is 28th and Paris XI is 98th so the reasons for the delayed ranks are
> related to the web presence. Language is an important issue as
> English-speaking countries are clearly over-represented but it is not the only
> reason. Perhaps interesting to this list is that the commitment to open access
> is limited. You can check the performance of the French university
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>  http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Europe/France
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>  It is very surprising that in some cases they have surrendered their own web
> domains in their "institutional" repositories. A few examples:
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>  École Polytechnique    http://hal-polytechnique.archives-ouvertes.fr/
>  Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
> http://hal-paris1.archives-ouvertes.fr/
>  École Mines ParisTech    http://hal-ensmp.archives-ouvertes.fr/
>  Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis    http://hal-unice.archives-ouvertes.fr/
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>  Of course this practice is penalizing their position in the Ranking.
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>  Best,
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Yves Gingras

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