1. Webometrics Team, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus
Mr. Uchenna Megafu,
Webometrics Team, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus
27th April, 2018

2. WHAT IS WEBOMETRICS
Webometrics main objective is to support open access initiatives and to promote global access to academic knowledge as produced by universities worldwide.
Since 2004, Webometrics Ranking is published twice a year (data is collected during the first weeks of January and July for being public at the end of both months), covering more than 27,000 Higher Education Institutions worldwide.
The web ranking propose is to motivate both institutions and scholars to have a web presence that reflects accurately their activities.

3. WHY RANK THE WEB
The web is already the main tool for scholarly commutation
The Web could reflect all the missions of the universities
Research
Teaching
Technology Transfer
The web reaches and it is accessed from every country of the world
Web visibility has proved its ranking capabilities
(E.g Webometrics Ranking of World's Universities)

4. ACTIVITIES THAT SUPPORT OPEN ACCESS
Content to be made available online
Research
 Technology Transfer 
Teaching
Raw experimental data
New software
Conference slides/presentations
Projects, Grants, Scholarships
Project development/final reports, book chapters
Books, papers, monographs
Patents
Drafts, preprints
Peer reviews
Papers in local/university journals
Personal CV/Profile
Research Team Description
Press notes and Interviews
TV programmes
Thesis, dissertations
Organized events calls
Papers in prestigious journals
Multimedia
Workshop slides
Bibliography's
Bureaucratic reports
Seminar slides/presentations
Textbooks
Book reviews
Web sites for e-learning
Answers for exams

5. TRANSPARENCY (or OPENNESS) EXCELLENCE (or SCHOLAR)
CURRENT METHODOLOGY
INDICATORS
DESCRIPTION
SOURCE
WEIGTH
 PRESENCE
Size (number of webpages) of the main webdomain of the institution. It includes all the subdomains  
Sharing the same (central or main) webdomain and all the file types including rich files like pdf documents
 Google 5%
VISIBILITY
Number of external networks (subnets) originating backlinks to the institution's webpages
After normalization, the maximum value between the two sources is selected
 Ahrefs  Majestic
50%
TRANSPARENCY (or OPENNESS)
Number of citations from Top authors according to the source  
 Google Scholar  Citations
10 %
EXCELLENCE (or SCHOLAR)
Number of papers amongst the top 10% most cited in 26 disciplines Data for the five year period ( )
 Scimago
35 %

6. PLATFORMS THAT SUPPORT OPEN ACCESS INITIATIVES
University of Nigeria OER (Open Educational Resources)
MIT OpenCourseWare
Open Knowledge Repository

7. THANK YOU Link to Referenced Works
2018. Ranking Web of Universities. January New Edition,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
World Bank Group,
UNN OER,
Next Session:
Theoretical overview & Practical application