The University's Open Archive has Risen Again in Repository Rankings

15:01, May 21, 2021

Meanwhile, it continues to maintain the first place in Russia

The Ural Federal University Open Archive continues to climb actively in Webometrics' Transparent Ranking of Repositories.

In the ranking of institutional repositories, the university's archive has risen two positions and is ranked 26th in the world out of more than 3,100 other resources. Moreover, the Ural Federal University archive continues to hold first place in Russia among institutional archives.

In the overall ranking, which includes 3,224 repositories, electronic archives and electronic libraries around the world, the UrFU repository moved up one position to 37th place.

"The University continues to make good progress in the most respected archival rankings. Importantly, we have appeared in the CRIS rankings for the first time at the 7th position with our Pure research portal. Thus, we are represented in three of the four rankings in the Transparent Ranking of Repositories. Our plan is to register our journal portal to enter the fourth ranking (Portal of Journals) as well. According to our calculations, this will allow us to get to 130-140th place right away. I would like to thank everyone involved, you are doing a very important work, the results of which speak for themselves," said Aleksandr Germanenko, Ural Federal University Vice-Rector for Science. 

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The Transparent Ranking of Repositories, like the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab research group. Its methodology is based on the number of documents placed in open access repositories and indexed by Google Scholar. It assesses the degree of openness of academic resources and their integration into the information space.