UTM once again maintains a good position in the latest webometrics ranking,jumping from 929th position in July 2008 to 920th position, the second highest standing among Malaysian Universities.In the July 2008 rankings, UTM ranked highest among Malaysian Universities. However in January 2009 USM took the lead by jumping from the 977th position in July 2008 to an incredible 845th place in January 2009.UTM is closely trailed by Universiti Malaya at the 962nd position followed by Universiti Putra Malaysia,1053rd and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia at 1146th place.Other Malaysian Universities ranked between 1230th place to 4894th position.
The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientÃficas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. It evaluates the website of each university that has its own independent domain twice a year, that is, in January and July.
The ranking has a larger coverage than other similar rankings. The ranking is not only focused on search results but also has other indicators which may reflect better the global quality of the scholars and research institutions worldwide. The ranking is based on unit of analysis of the institutional domain, so only universities and research centres with an independent web domain are considered. If an institution has more than one main domain, two or more entries are used with the different addresses.
The first Web indicator, Web Impact Factor (WIF), was based on link analysis that combines the number of external inlinks and the number of pages of the website, a ratio of 1:1 between visibility and size. This ratio is used for the ranking, adding two new indicators to the size component: Number of documents, measured from the number of rich files in a web domain, and number of publications being collected by Google Scholar database. There are four indicators which obtain quantitative results provided by the main search engines such as Size (S), number of pages recovered from four engines: Google, Yahoo, Live Search and Exalead, Visibility (V), the total number of unique external links received (inlinks) by a site that can be obtained from only Yahoo Search, Live Search and Exalead.
The other two indicators are, Rich Files (R), after evaluation of their relevance to academic and publication activities and considering the volume of the different file formats, the following were selected: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe PostScript, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Powerpoint and the final indicator is Scholar (Sc). Google Scholar provides the number of papers and citations for each academic domain. These results from the Scholar database represent papers, reports and other academic items. The four ranks were combined according to a formula where each one has a different weight but maintaining the ratio 1:1.
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