Understanding Webometrics and Global University Rankings - Insights from Isidro F. Aguillo
Explore the world of university rankings through Webometrics, focusing on global strategy, open science, research outputs, link visibility, and more. Gain practical insights on improving university rankings and understanding the prestigious Shanghai Ranking. Discover biases, actions for improvement, and the purpose of Webometrics in promoting open access initiatives worldwide.
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Virtual Session September 14th, 2023 MASTERCLASS Webometrics & the German Universities Isidro F. Aguillo Editor Rankings Web World's 2% Most Cited Scientist isidro.aguillo@csic.es
Contents World Rankings (brief) Other Rankings Ranking Web (Webometrics): Global strategy PRESENCE Open Science: Portals & Personal Pages Open Access: Repositories EXCELLENCE Research outputs Monitoring: CRIS VISIBILITY Link Visibility and Popularity Social Networks OPENNESS Google Scholar vs ResearchGate Non-personal GS profiles 2
Global and Web Rankings Rankings Ranking Web Understanding the prestigious rankings Suggestions A ranking of universities, not a ranking of websites Practical customised proposals for improvement 3
Shanghai Ranking ONLY 12 (of 1000) universities with total score larger than >50% ............................... * For-profit Consulting 4
Other Rankings BIASES Only 5% of the Universities analyzed and ranked Data provided by surveys and the universities themselves Incorrect bibliometric measurements ACTIONS NOT EASY As size is important: Then merge Universities Attract highly cited researchers from third parties Increase funding and investment 5
RANKING WEB OF UNIVESITIES 6
Basic Facts WHAT IS ONE (closed) ranking based on editors experience and expertise The LARGEST ranking, covering more than 32 000 HEIs worldwide An INDEPENDENT Ranking built by scientists from a CSIC (public body) research team FOR WHAT To promote OPEN ACCESS/SCIENCE initiatives To describe all the University MISSIONS To rank people (bottom-up) and institutions (top- down) activities, NOT WEBSITES 7
WEBOMETRICS IS A RANKING OF UNIVERSITIES NOT A RANKING OF WEBSITES 8
50% 50% ACTIVITY IMPACT OPENNESS Top Profiles VISIBILITY Linking Institutions EXCELLENCE Top Papers 9
6001 199 337 44 624 12 3568 172 461 35 15674 86 5349 0 3180 150 992 12 1362 3 278 0 2495 50 69 3 1139 1 3891 10 1255 4 3277 0 1264 6 268 26 123 4 32022 Top 500 July 2023 10
GERMANY July 2023 11
OVERALL STRATEGY 12
TOP-DOWN UNIVERSITY & WEB COORDINATED STRATEGIES INSTITUTIONAL OPEN SCIENCE SERVICES WORLD CLASS PORTALS BOTTOM-UP SOCIAL NETWORKS PRESENCE EVERYBODY INVOLVED PERSONAL PAGES/PORTALS EVERYBODY!! 13
Web strategy EXCLUDED HEIs without independent web domain Hochschule der Polizei Rheinland Pfalz Hochschule der S chsischen Polizei FH Fachhochschule der Verwaltung des Saarlandes ESCP Europe Wirtschaftshochschule Berlin PENALYZED BY OUR SOURCES HEIs using sub-domains as main homepage Berufliche Hochschule Hamburg BHH Steuerakademie Niedersachsen Th ringer Fachhochschule f r ffentliche Verwaltung Fachhochschule f r Rechtspflege Nordrhein Westfalen Hochschule f r den ffentlichen Dienst in Bayern Hochschule f r ffentliche Verwaltung Bremen Fortbildungszentrum des Freistaates Sachsen ... and others 14
PRESENCE CONTENTS 15
Open Science INCLUSIVITY PIDS Cooperation ACCESS FLOSS software REPRODUCIBILITY Pol cies INMEDIACY Tools Methods Open Access Journals/Portals/Repositories SHARING IMPACT Educaction Open Data FAIR Open Metrics Open Peer-review Technology Data & other Repositories Social Networks Open textmining Pre-prints RESPONSABILITY Citizen Science Crowd- funding SUSTAINABILITY Isidro F. Aguillo, 2023 16
PRESENCE PORTALS 19
A impact model Local issues GLOCAL From a global perspective quantitative Filling gaps PORTALS Rich and diverse qualitative 20
Example: SDGs Portal https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/zentren/zeu/sdgnexus 21
PRESENCE PERSONAL PAGES 22
Personal Page(s) 184 webpages https://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/karl/ 23
A model for personal pages 2 750 webpages https://gking.harvard.edu/ 24
PRESENCE OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORY 25
Institutional Repositories Only 10 IRs > 10 000 items in GS 26
PRESENCE COMMUNITY ENGAGMENT 27
Web Hosting 28
Mainz University Medical Center UNIVERSITY uni-mainz.de MEDICAL SCHOOL um-mainz.de MEDICAL CENTER unimedizin-mainz.de 29
EXCELLENCE RESEARCH 30
Top-cited Papers Open Access fractional counting 31
German Universities CRIS NOT WORKING PRIVATE NOT A CRIS NOT A CRIS NOT A FULL CRIS NOT A CRIS NOT WORKING NOT A FULL CRIS NOT A FULL CRIS 32
VISIBILITY POSITIONING 35
SEO bad practices ALT= Home 36
Rank in Google Navigation pages, no home page, no library, no repository 37
VISIBILITY POPULARITY & LINK VISIBILITY 38
Popularity: Traffic fu-berlin.de rwth-aachen.de 39
Explanation? 40
Link Visibility (II) 0 - 100 42
VISIBILITY SOCIAL NETWORKS 43
OPENNESS GOOGLE SCHOLAR 45
Google Scholar vs ResearchGate 1547 profiles 46
Not a Summary OPEN is beyond sharing knowledge inside Academia Web strategy is PART OF the University strategy EVERYBODY GLOCAL 49
Questions? SaCSbeoAAAAJ A-7280-2008 124106 3481717 6507380175 0000-0001-8927-4873 isidro-f-aguillo IsidroAguillo @isidroaguillo Thank you! 50
