The Ranking Web or Webometrics
* The Ranking Web is not a ranking of the websites of Universities, it is a Ranking of Universities. It uses both webometric (all missions) and bibliometric (research mission) indicators
* The primary objective of the Ranking Web is to promote Open Access to the knowledge generated by the University. Best strategy to improve your rank is to increase quantity and quality of your webcontents
* Ranking Web started in 2004 (current is the 21st year of publication) with the aim of offer full coverage of Higher Education Institutons whatever the country or discipline involve. Currently we ranked 32 000 HEIs from more than 200 countries
* Editors of the Ranking Web are scientists working at one world-class public research institution with long experience in metrics-guided evaluation
* The Ranking Web or Webometrics is the largest academic ranking of Higher Education Institutions offering every six months an independent, objective, free, open scientific exercise for providing reliable, multidimensional, updated and useful information about the performance of universities from all over the world
* It follows the general introduction to the ranking methodology. However, this is a research project and we change the methodology according to new findings or the availability of sources. If you find discrepancies, please refer to the most updated info that is usually included in the introduction to each new edition.
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