Webometrics

1st August 2012

Source: About Ranking: http://www.webometrics.info/about_rank.html

Webometric Ranking

Visibility (50%)

Size (10%)

Rich Files (10%) Scholar

(30%)

No. of external links linked to our website

Amount of files related to academic and university activities

Combination of items published in Google Scholar and global output in Scimago IR

No. of pages in the website

How do they measure?

Webometrics:Measuring 20,000 Universities

Jan2012 Size Visibility Rich Files Scholar

10% 50% 10% 30%

July 2012 Presence Impact Openness Excellence

20% 50% 15% 15%

Webometrics Malaysia Ranking 2012Jan 2012

Jul 2012

Jan2012 Size Visibility Rich Files Scholar

10% 50% 10% 30%July 2012 Presence Impact Openness Excellence

20 50 15 15

Ranking changes….

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CONTEMPORARY AND FORWARD LOOKING?

To become an exemplary university of internationally acknowledged stature and a

scholarly institution of choice for both students and

academics through the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research and scholarship

To generate, disseminate and apply knowledge

strategically and innovatively to enhance the

quality of the nation's culture and prosperity of its

peopleContemporary and Forward Looking

Teaching

Researchoutcomes

Character

Services

Engagement with

Stakeholders

Impact(Visibility)

Presence(Size)

Openness (Rich Files)

Excellence(Scholar)

Webometrics

Webometrics and Contemporary and Forward LookingAre closely connected

Increase Web features and

specific contentonline

Web features that we need/or have to enrich

Archive section?

Video clips section?

Personal Researcher files and papers

Multilanguage?

Social Media? (Youtube?)

Blogs? Twitter?

Corporate documents

Annual Reports, Bulletines

Web Accessibility Tools?

Open Courseware?

Journals

News, events, bulletins, etc

Institutional Repository

Comparing UNIMAS website with other university websites in terms of design

Commitment to Open Access

No restriction to access to articles online

strategy

We have so many stories to tell

We have to embrace change

Everything we do must have a Virtual element

Adopt Web 2.0 technology

Involve all stakeholders

PRESENCE (20%). The global volume of contents published on the university webdomains as indexed by the largest commercial search engine (Google). It counts every webpage, including all the formats recognized individually by Google, both static and dynamic pages. For the purposes of the Ranking the web presence is a good proxy of the activities performed by the Universities in the 21st century. IMPACT (50%). The quality of the contents is evaluated through a "virtual referendum", counting all the external inlinks that the University webdomain receives from third parties. Those links are recognizing the institutional prestige, the academic performance, the value of the information, and the usefulness of the services as introduced in the webpages according to the criteria of millions of web editors from all over the world. The link visibility data is collected from the two most important providers of this information: Majestic SEO and ahrefs, that provides an overlapping scenario very close to a true global coverage OPENNESS (15%). The global effort to set up institutional research repositories is explicitly recognized in this indicator that takes into account the number of rich files (pdf, doc, docx, ppt) published in dedicated websites according to the academic search engine Google Scholar. Only correctly formed file names are considered (for example, the Adobe Acrobat files should end with the suffix .pdf) for the period 2007-2011. EXCELLENCE (15%). The academic papers published in high impact international journals are playing a very important role in the ranking of Universities. Deepening the commitment to this measurement started in previous edition we are introducing the Excellence indicator, the university scientific output being part of the 10% of the most cited papers in their respective scientific fields. Although this is a measure of high quality output of research institutions, the data provider Scimago group supplied non-zero values for more than 5200 universities (period 2003-2010).

• We know the Formula

Kita boleh Kira Sendiri!

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Newsletters online

Setiap PTJ mesti ada pelbagai kandungan dalam galeri masing-masing

We need Dedicated WritersOur Ranking will go down if we do nothing!

Increase our Rich Content

Google

Find where UNIMAS is located in the search results using different search terms

Search delimiter: site:unimas.my filetype:pdf/ps/doc/ppt

Find size of the website (no. of pages)

Search delimiter: site:unimas.my

SEARCH ENGINE

Study of www.unimas.my placement in search engine results page

Find total Rich files available in .doc, .pdf, .ps and .ppt

Find number of journals indexed

Search delimiter: site:unimas.my

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Contents has increased but not enough

Scimago Institution Ranking (SIR) http://www.scimagoir.com/index.php

Measures research performance

Study UNIMAS journal impact

SIR World Report http://www.scimagoir.com/pdf/sir_2011_world_report.pdf

Are we in SIR ranking table?

International Collaboration

High Quality Publication

Specialized index

Excellence Rate

Output Normalized Impact

Increase Excellence (Scholar)

Papers indexed by Google Scholar

Scholar Size

University Oct 2011 July 2012UNIMAS 32 41UMS 917 2090USM 16,400 17,400UTM 14,600 22,300UPM 11,300 11,600MMU 420 689

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PUBLICATION

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omitted resultsDoc/docxPptPdf

individual author: Full text of your paper is in a PDF file

• simply upload your paper to your website, www.unimas.my/~nara/jpdr2009.pdf; and

link from www.unimas.my/~nara/publications.html

Institutional Repository• Use the latest version of Eprints (eprints.org), or DSpace

(dspace.org) software to host your papers or follow the guidelines of Google.

GOOGLE Inclusion Policy

Best Practices

Make our Institutional Repository visible

MAS

UNIMAS has 39 names in Researcher ID, UITM and MMU has more than 100.

Increase our Visibility (Impact)

Link Analysis

Analysis of web content

Find size of the website (no. of pages)

Find number of inlinks- incoming links to www.unimas.my

Web Analytics

Find total Rich files available in .doc, .pdf, .ps and .ppt

Find number of journals indexed

UNIMAS Majestic SEO information (taken on February 20th,2012)

Need to Improve our Visibility

Lets engage our stakeholders: collaborators, friends, and anyone who cares creates links or refer to UNIMAS webpage.

UITM: 28,000UMS: 26,400USM: 47, 646

How can we use these to connect to our stakeholders?

• Alumni• Students• Parents• Community• Industries• Government

Wise use of the web 2.0 tools

YES, we need to create reasons for our staffs, students and outsiders to go to UNIMAS website as

much as possible

Research on Web 2.0

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UNIMAS as described in Wikipedia

UNIMAs writeup on Wikipedia and other resources like YOUTUBE and Blogs can be improved!

UNIMAS does not have an Arabic or Chinese page as done by other universities, even on Wikipedia

Can we not improve our promotion to foreign students.

UNIMAS as described in Linked In

We need to say more about ourself

http://www.protopage.com/web2point0forteachers#Web_2.0_For_Teachers/Subject_Specific

Getting the best mileage out of:

Make the 20th anniversary logo more easy to

download and link by all parties..

Let’s create downloadable templates for all presentation and

publications

Get Coursework programme e.g (CMBA and HRD)

students and Alumni in helping us promote Invite Alumni, vendors,

partners, government agencies like majlis daerah,

and related state and federal agencies to put us

on their web site

We need to use the Web wisely to promote ourself

Competition on Facebook to answer “UNIMAS has made a difference because......”

We have so many stories to tell

We have to embrace change

Everything we do must have a Virtual element

Adopt Web 2.0 technology

Involve all stakeholders

Let’s Get in Action with small but meaningful steps…….

At first they ignore you, then they laugh at you,

then they fight you, then you win

Mahatma Gandhi