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Since 2004, the Ranking Web is published two times (January & July) per year. This ranking has the
largest coverage with more than 16,000 Higher Education Institutions worldwide listed in the Directory.
Web presence measures the activity and visibility of the institutions and it is a good indicator of impact and prestige
of universities. Rank summarizes the global performance of the University, provides information for candidate students
and scholars, and reflects the commitment to the dissemination of scientific knowledge.
We intend to motivate both institutions and scholars to have a web presence that reflect accurately their activities.
If the web performance of an institution is below the expected position according to their academic excellence,
university authorities should reconsider their web policy, promoting substantial increases of the volume and quality
of their electronic publications.
Major changes
We have adopted a new naming policy using lowercases for the listed sites in order to improve
readability. We are working on adding or correcting the lost special characters and accents, so we kindly ask for
your patience in the meantime.
The database has been completely revised and updated with about 3,000 entries added or corrected,
including English names for all the universities of Poland. If you see that your institution is not already listed,
please feel free to send us an email so we can add it to the updated version.
A new "region" has been introduced that it is called Arab World (dz, bh, km, dj, eg, er, iq, jo,
kw, lb, ly, mr, ma, om, ps, qa, sa, so, sd, sy, tn, ae, ye), which is meant to cover the Middle East (excluding Iran
which is now transferred to Asia) and North Africa.
Regarding ranking methodology, the Scholar indicator has been recalculated, so it is now obtained
from the mean between total figures and those for the period 2001-2008. Due to some technical problems the G-factor
for the first 1,000 universities is not yet taken into account for the visibility indicator, but we intend to use it in
the next edition.
Regarding bad practices
The use of link farms and paid backlinks to improve the position in our Webometrics Rankings is
not aceptable as this is a non academic practice and it is contrary to the aims of this Ranking. The involved
institutions does not have a place in our Ranking and will not be classified in future editions. Random checks
are made to ensure the correcteness of the data obtained.
Notes
The section called Notes is providing
information about institutions with bad naming practices, including duplicate domains. If a number appears after
the name of the university you will find the corresponding detailed comments at the Notes section
Results
A summary of the current results (July 2008) sorted by country is presented
in the following table. For each country the first 10 and 5 universities have been chosen and then they have been
ranked by the sum of the positions of these universities:
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