Since 2004, the Ranking Web is published twice a year (January and July). 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.

Isidro Aguillo has been awarded with the Doctor Honoris Causa

On the 16th of April 2009, as part of the opening ceremony for the International Conference on World University Ranking 2009 that took place at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, the Doctor Honoris Causa award was conferred to the Head of the Cybermetrics Lab, Mr Isidro Aguillo.

The Rector of the University of Indonesia, the Minister of National Education of the Republic of Indonesia and the Director General of Higher Education, among other personalities, attended the ceremony. This award has been given for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of Information Sciences and for his leadership in Cybermetrics with the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.

Top 500 Excel file

The Top 500 Webometrics Excel file is a free download with the main data for universities and countries. It can be used citing the source. We are unable to provide larger files or previous years' files.

Comments requested

In order to reduce major discrepancies in the Ranking, several actions are scheduled for the new edition of July 2009. A list of these major chages has been published in the Blog "What the Internet says about Science". Please check the proposals and comment with us about them.

Regarding bad practices

The use of link farms and paid backlinks to improve the position in our Webometrics Rankings is not acceptable 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

Check the section Notes if one or three asterisks appears after the name of the university.

Countries

Current results sorted by country taking into consideration the first 5 and 10 universities ranked of each country:

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