Webometrics Ranking of World Universities

Webometrics Ranking of World Universities

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has been ranked 17 out of top 100 in the Indian Subcontinent Region in “Webometrics Ranking of World Universities”, a leading international website www.webometrics.info.

IGNOU, a distance educational institution has competed with conventional institutions like IIMs, IITs, Anna University, University of Pune, University of Delhi, AIIMS, B.H.U. and Open University of Sri Lanka, Virtual University of Pakistan, North South University, Bangladesh, University of Dhaka etc.

The Universities are classified by a mathematical combination of the rankings according to their websize, number of rich files, number of papers published in the last years and records in the Google Scholar. The criteria combined include link visibility, number of citations to papers in the IST database and number of visits (popularity) to the web domains.

The methodological section adheres the Berlin Principles on Ranking of Higher Education Institutions.

Although the main primary of the Webometrics Ranking is to promote the publication in the web by Universities and other research related institutions, the web indicators produced allow a comparative analysis with other scientometric or bibliometric indicators. The data shows both a global good agreement among rankings and several striking measurements corresponding to a well defined group of countries.

The aim is to show the commitment of these organizations to the electronic publications. The purpose is to offer an extended coverage including information about countries institutions.

This Ranking is being published since 2004 on a regular basis using the web data as indicator of the visibility and impact of the activities of the universities, colleges and research institutions worldwide.