The Webometrics Ranking 由西班牙国家研究委员会(National Research Council)主导，以“搜寻笔数”、“外部连结”、“网络出版资料”、“学术搜寻笔数”等4项指标衡量世界各大学表现，主要参考Google、Yahoo、LiveSearch、Exalead等搜寻引擎的资料。此排名每年发布两次，分别在一月和六月。

PRESENTATION

The Webometrics Ranking formally and explicitly adheres to the Berlin Principles of Higher Education Institutions. The ultimate aim is the continuous improvement and refinement of the methodologies according to a set of agreed principles of good practices.

Background of the project.

The “World Universities’ ranking on the Web” is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group of the Centro de Información y Documentación (CINDOC), part of the National Research Council (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain.

Cybermetrics Lab is devoted to the quantitative analysis of the Internet and Web contents specially those related to the processes of generation and scholarly communication of scientific knowledge. This is a new emerging discipline that has been called Cybermetrics (our team developed and publishes the free electronic journal Cybermetrics since 1997) or Webometrics.

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