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www.webometrics.info Isidro F. Aguillo Cybermetrics Lab. CCHS-CSIC isidro.aguillo@cchs.csic.es Slide 2 www.webometrics.info Agenda 2 Slide 3 3 About Us Slide 4 www.webometrics.info To Rank or not to Rank 4 Slide 5 www.webometrics.info 5 Student Mobility Growth in internationalization of tertiary education (1975-2006) Source: Education at a Glance 2008: OECD Slide 6 www.webometrics.info 6 How To Rank? Slide 7 www.webometrics.info Feasibility Problems 7 Slide 8 www.webometrics.info Why the Web? 8 Slide 9 www.webometrics.info 9 The Ranking Web Slide 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 Slide 11 www.webometrics.info Webometrics Rankings 11 Slide 12 www.webometrics.info 12 Slide 13 www.webometrics.info 13 Summary Slide 14 www.webometrics.info WR (Enero 2009) Expected Results 14 Slide 15 www.webometrics.info More Results 15 Slide 16 www.webometrics.info Comparing World Rankings 16 Slide 17 www.webometrics.info Advantages & Disadvantages 17 Slide 18 www.webometrics.info Comparing World Rankings (Top 200) 18 Slide 19 www.webometrics.info 19 Academic Digital Divide Slide 20 www.webometrics.info 20 Russian Federation Universities Slide 21 www.webometrics.info 21 World, January 2009 Slide 22 www.webometrics.info 22 Russia, May 2009 Slide 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 Slide 24 www.webometrics.info 24 Neighborhood Slide 25 www.webometrics.info 25 Geography Slide 26 www.webometrics.info 26 Overlap? hse.ru? Slide 27 www.webometrics.info 27 Popularity Slide 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 Slide 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 Slide 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