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al-Farabi Kazakh National University Almaty (Kazakhstan), November 21-22th 2011
Ranking Web
Global strategies for Kazakh Universities
Isidro F. Aguillo, HcDr The Cybermetrics Lab - CSIC
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About us
The Cybermetrics Lab
Researchers belonging to the National Research Council (CSIC)
The largest Spanish research public organization
Recognised by our peers
15 years experience in quantitative analysis and evaluation of scholar communication and academic institutions Papers in referred scientific journals, contributions to international conferences, reports to governmental bodies
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About the Ranking
Ranking Web or Webometrics
Published since 2004
Two times (January & July) per year
Based on Web indicators
Composite indicator combining web presence of the universities (including academic papers) and impact (link visibility) of the contents
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http://www.webometrics.info/
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Webometrics is …
a RANKING of Universities
A table league providing performance ranks
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an alphabetic ordered list
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groups of universities in large clusters
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a template with customisable variables
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a collection of difficult to understand graphs
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a series of colourful smileys
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Webometrics is …
ONE Ranking
A unique list according to an informed model built by experts and scientifically tested
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several completely different rankings derived from exactly the same data
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an open system to be customised by young students or scholars without experience or expertise in Higher Education
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Leiden RankingS
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Webometrics is …
a GLOBAL Ranking
Aiming to include all the Higher Education Institutions
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only the developed countries’ universities
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only research-intensive universities
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3466 394 3491 40 Geographical coverage 5102 413 604 5 394 5 19403 (Top 1000) 6177 108 168 35
July 2011
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Webometrics is …
An ALL-MISSIONS Ranking
Representing all the university missions: Teaching, Research, Technology and Knowledge Transfer, Community Engagement, Internationalization
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only the research outputs
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only the students/faculty ratios
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only the awards and other excellence driven indicators
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only hard-sciences based criteria
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Missions reflected on the Web Activity
Web pages
(three missions)
Documents
(rich files)
Scientific Papers
Impact
Links/Mentions
(Visibility, Prestige, Super sites, Quality contents)
Popularity
(Visits/visitors, Downloads)
MISSIONS UNIVERSITIES WORLD-CLASS NATION BUILDING LOCAL Citations
RESEARCH TEACHING COMMUNITY ENGAGMENT
Patents
TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFER INTERNATIONAL IZATION
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + <--------------------------------Surveys-------------------------------->
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Webometrics is …
built by SCHOLARS
According to a model, with weighting driven by Informetrics criteria and using the correct mathematical tools
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considering political or commercial interests
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ignoring flaws, biases and mistakes
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given priority to stability over quality enhancements
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an anonymous website
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Model
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RANKING ARWU (Shanghai) TIMES HE (2010) QS (former THES) HEEACT (Taiwan) WR (Webometrics) Ratio 1:1 ACTIVITY 40% 35% 30% 20% 50% IMPACT 60% 65% 70% 80% 50%
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SCORE Normalization WR log-norm z-score QS ARWU HEEACT CWTS RANK
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Webometrics is …
USEFUL
Provides meaningful information about the global and national systems and identifying bad practices that explain the major discrepancies
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hiding or excluding outliers or institutions difficult to analyse
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explaining strange results accepted without critical review
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Academic Digital Divide
18 1901 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (Chemistry) 1901 Emil Adolf von Behring (Physiology or Medicine) 1902 Hermann Emil Fischer (Chemistry) 1902 Theodor Mommsen (Literature) 1905 Adolf von Baeyer (Chemistry) 1905 Robert Koch (Physiology or Medicine) 1907 Albert Abraham Michelson (Physics) 1907 Eduard Buchner (Chemistry) 1908 Paul Ehrlich (Physiology or Medicine) 1909 Karl Ferdinand Braun (Physics) 1910 Otto Wallach (Chemistry) 1910 Albrecht Kossel (Physiology or Medicine) 1910 Paul Heyse (Literature) 1911 Wilhelm Wien (Physics) 1914 Max von Laue (Physics) 1915 Richard Willstätter (Chemistry) 1918 Fritz Haber (Chemistry) 1918 Max Planck (Physics) 1920 Walther Nernst (Chemistry) 1921 Albert Einstein (Physics)
Other Rankings
1925 Gustav Ludwig Hertz (Physics) 1925 James Franck (Physics) 1925 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (Chemistry) 1928 Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (Chemistry) 1929 Hans von Euler-Chelpin (Chemistry) 1931 Otto Heinrich Warburg (Physiology or Medicine) 1932 Werner Heisenberg (Physics) 1933 Erwin Schrödinger (Physics) 1935 Hans Spemann (Physiology or Medicine) 1936 Peter Debye (Chemistry) 1939 Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry) 1944 Otto Hahn (Chemistry) 1950 Kurt Alder (Chemistry) 1950 Otto Diels (Chemistry) 1953 Fritz Albert Lipmann (Physiology or Medicine) 1953 Hans Adolf Krebs (Physiology or Medicine) 1954 Max Born (Physics) 1956 Walther Bothe (Physics) 1991 Bert Sakmann (Physiology or Medicine) 2007 Gerhard Ertl (Chemistry)
Nobel Laureates of University of Berlin (1945), splitted in two : Humboldt Universität y Freie Universität, ignored by the Shanghai Ranking (ARWU) RANKINGS Institution
Freie Universität Berlin Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
ARWU 2003 …..… 2011 WEB 2011 92 103
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Kazakh Universities
Current situation
Ranking Web includes 94 universities (64%) with their own web domain (according to the Ministry of Education there are 148, of which 74 are cited in English version of Wikipedia)
Two have duplicate central domains None of them are ranked in the Top 4000 There is no Open Access repositories internationally registered
Comparison with research outputs
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Low correlation
Link Visibility
Low visibility
Presence in Scholar
No Open Access policies
Popularity
Local impact
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Summarizing …
Kazakh Universities are underperforming in the Ranking Web
Major reason is the lack of quality (research-related) international (English) contents in the Web
Other problems are related to web domain bad practices, lack of support of Open Access initiatives, and centralised short term web policies
Web is already the most important scholarly communication tool, so … Why are you ignoring Webometrics results?
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Recommendations …
Web presence should reflect the performance, prestige and the impact of the universities
The key variables are content-related, involving everybody in the web publication, not only computer department and the library but every department, research group, individual scholar, researcher or post-graduate student
Contents
A lot of contents
Contents
Quality contents, specially research results
Contents
International contents, in local languages and in English too
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Thank you! CONTACT INFO
Isidro F. Aguillo, HcPhD The Cybermetrics Lab (CSIC) Madrid. SPAIN