New July'13 edition & important methodological changes

Fresh data in the Ranking Web

        The new edition will be published on August 2nd including completely new data compiled during July. As usual we are adding more institutions, correcting the names and web domains of universities and also taking note of your comments, suggestions and criticisms.

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Motivations

        The methodological changes in our ranking intend to have a strong effect on certain academic policies in order to improve specific aspects of the performance of the universities that are important in our agenda. The main issues are:

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Please read it carefully

        Since 2004, the Ranking Web (or Webometrics Ranking) is published twice a year (data is collected during the first weeks of January and July for being public at the end of both months), covering more than 20,000 Higher Education Institutions worldwide. We intend to motivate both institutions and scholars to have a web presence that reflect accurately their activities.

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Follow the news about the Ranking in Twitter

Our editor account in Twitter is @isidroaguillo. The latest news about the future editions of the Rankings Webometrics.

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Countries arranged by Number of Universities in Top Ranks

        Beyond the Top 500 biased analysis. There are countries where the whole set of their universities are in the upper category, but even USA that has more universities in the elite, shows over 2000 of its HEIs beyond the 5000th mark.

        We provide here this data by country that can be useful for economic-related analysis (July 2013 edition): Exactly 21451 universities from all over the world are included,

 

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Updated methodology

        Webometrics Ranking original and still valid main objective is to support Open Access (OA) initiatives and to promote global access to academic knowledege as produced by universities worldwide. Ranking intends to be a useful tool showing the commitment of the institutions to the OA  through carefully selected web indicators.

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