[Asis-l] Ranking of Universities

[Isidro F. Aguillo]

Dear colleagues,

An alternative to rankings based on bibliometric and other traditional 
indicators is the Webometrics Ranking that has ben updated last July.

***Webometrics Ranking of World Universities - July 2007***

http://www.webometrics.info/

Includes

*** Top 4,000 World Universities
*** Top 1,000 Research Institutes
*** Regional and country-level lists
*** Comparative analyisis
*** Bilingual edition (English/Spanish)
*** Detailed methodology


The Ranking's aim is to show the commitment of the academic 
organizations to the electronic publication, the open access to 
scientific results and the internationalization of their activities. As 
other rankings are more focused on World Class Universities, our purpose 
is to offer an extended coverage including information about the 
developing countries' institutions.

We intend to motivate both institutions and scholars to have a web 
presence that reflect accurately their activities. *If the web 
performance of an institution is below the expected position according 
to their academic excellence, university authorities should reconsider 
their web policy, promoting substantial increases of the volume and 
quality of their electronic publications.*

The ranking is based on a combined indicator that takes into account 
both the volume of the Web contents and the visibility and impact of 
this web publications according to the number of external inlinks 
(sitations) they received.

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Isidro F. Aguillo

isidro at cindoc.csic.es

CINDOC - CSIC
Joaquín Costa, 22
28002 Madrid. Spain
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