1. www.webometrics.info Isidro F. Aguillo Cybermetrics Lab. CCHS-CSIC isidro.aguillo@cchs.csic.es

2. www.webometrics.info Agenda 2

3. 3 About Us

4. www.webometrics.info To Rank or not to Rank 4

5. www.webometrics.info 5 Student Mobility Growth in internationalization of tertiary education (1975-2006) Source: Education at a Glance 2008: OECD

6. www.webometrics.info 6 How To Rank?

7. www.webometrics.info Feasibility Problems 7

8. www.webometrics.info Why the Web? 8

9. www.webometrics.info 9 The Ranking Web

10. www.webometrics.info 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

11. www.webometrics.info Webometrics Rankings 11

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13. www.webometrics.info 13 Summary

14. www.webometrics.info WR (Enero 2009) Expected Results 14

15. www.webometrics.info More Results 15

16. www.webometrics.info Comparing World Rankings 16

17. www.webometrics.info Advantages & Disadvantages 17

18. www.webometrics.info Comparing World Rankings (Top 200) 18

19. www.webometrics.info 19 Academic Digital Divide

20. www.webometrics.info 20 Russian Federation Universities

21. www.webometrics.info 21 World, January 2009

22. www.webometrics.info 22 Russia, May 2009

23. www.webometrics.info 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. www.webometrics.info 24 Neighborhood

25. www.webometrics.info 25 Geography

26. www.webometrics.info 26 Overlap? hse.ru?

27. www.webometrics.info 27 Popularity

28. www.webometrics.info 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

29. www.webometrics.info 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. www.webometrics.info 30 T HANK Y OU ! Q UESTIONS ? I SIDRO F. A GUILLO C YBERMETRICS L AB CCHS-CSIC A LBASANZ, 26-28 28037 M ADRID S PAIN E-M AIL : ISIDRO. AGUILLO @ CCHS. CSIC. ES WWW. WEBOMETRICS. INFO