Isidro F. Aguillo Cybermetrics Lab. CCHS-CSIC
Agenda 2
3 About Us
To Rank or not to Rank 4
5 Student Mobility Growth in internationalization of tertiary education ( ) Source: Education at a Glance 2008: OECD
6 How To Rank?
Feasibility Problems 7
Why the Web? 8
9 The Ranking Web
An Academic Model 10 Activity (50%) Virtual referendum Size Number of Webpages 20% Impact (50%) Rich files Number of documents 15%Scholar Number of papers 15%Visibility Number of external inlinks
Webometrics Rankings 11
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13 Summary
WR (Enero 2009) Expected Results 14
More Results 15
Comparing World Rankings 16
Advantages & Disadvantages 17
Comparing World Rankings (Top 200) 18
19 Academic Digital Divide
20 Russian Federation Universities
21 World, January 2009
22 Russia, May 2009
23 International Visibility gTLD: com+org+net; Eastern Europe: ua+by+ee+lv+lt+ee+pl+cz+hu; Western Europe: de+uk+fr+it+es+se+dk+nl+no+fi Asia: jp+kr+cn+tw+in+hk+il; North America: gov+edu+ca
24 Neighborhood
25 Geography
26 Overlap? hse.ru?
27 Popularity
Size Unique Domain Richer Structure Research VisibilityRussian + English InternationalBacklinks From Academia! Rich Files & Scholar Personal Pages Repository Hosting Third Parties Improving the (Web) Rank 28
Taking the Web seriously The Web is a more universal, democratic, cheaper and powerful communication tool and Web indicators could be used for wider, fairer and feasible evaluation purposes University web sites should reflect the full set of activities and all the results produced by the institution and help to their dissemination to improve visibility, prestige and attracting new students, excellent scholars and big funding Russian Universities web presence is below expected according to their academic and scientific performance. Bad practices include multiple domains, inconsistent URLs, lack of international contents or absence of repositories Globalization and increased mobility of students and scholars suggest that a major effort in electronic publication could pay huge dividends to the universities 29
30 T HANK Y OU ! Q UESTIONS ? I SIDRO F. A GUILLO C YBERMETRICS L AB CCHS-CSIC A LBASANZ, M ADRID S PAIN E-M AIL : ISIDRO. CCHS. CSIC. ES WWW. WEBOMETRICS. INFO