UrFU Enters Russia’s Top 10 according to Webometrics Ranking of World Universities

15:06, August 13, 2018

The university improved positions both in Russian and global rankings

Ural Federal University entered the top 10 of Russian universities in the new Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. UrFU gained two positions among universities of Russia and 82 positions in the global ranking, where it now holds the 1 118th position.

According to Vladimir Kruzhaev, UrFU’s Vice-rector for Research, the University’s positions improved significantly in a number of key indicators of the ranking. Thus, the “Opennes” indicator (the one that uses the information from universities’ profiles on Google Scholar Citations) improved by 10 positions, “Excellence” (citations of scientific publications based on analytical data by SCImago research group) by 151 positions, and “Presence” (number of webpages indexed by Google) by 36 positions.

The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is currently one of the most prestigious online university rankings. It is published twice a year and includes about 25 000 universities, of which 12 000 are included in the published part of the ranking. Webometrics looks at the representation of universities in the global information space and allows to indirectly assess the educational and research achievements of universities. The indicators have a significant impact on the assessment of universities in the QS and Times Higher Education rankings.