Webometrics ranking of
web resources of Russian
research institutes
Designed by Irina Kosinets
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Scientometrics is the science of measuring
and analyzing science.
The main goals:
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to give an objective picture and perspectives of
scientific trends;
to estimate their applicability.
Webometrics is one of new approaches to
ranking.
International ranking
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SCImago (www.scimagoir.com )
QS-THES (www.topuniversities.com )
ARWU (www.arwu.org )
Cybermetrics Lab
(research.webometrics.info)
Goals of ranking
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The objective is not to evaluate websites, their design or
usability or the popularity of their contents according to
the number of visits or visitors.
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Web indicators are considered as proxies in the correct,
comprehensive, deep evaluation of the university global
performance, taking into account its activities and outputs
and their relevance and impact.
http://www.webometrics.info/en/Methodology
These goals are reasonable not only for
universities but for research centers too.
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Russian Research Centers
need their own ranking web and
we are creating it.
Why did we decide to create
our own system for ranking?
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In our opinion, Cybermetrics Lab uses
techniques for obtaining values of indicators
which are not suitable for the ranking Web
(Webometrics) of Russian research centers.
What is not suitable for Russian
Research centers?
Remark 1.
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Investigations of Cybermetrics Lab are based
on Google and other searching systems
(search engines) which are widely used in
Europe, the USA.
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The most popular searching system in Russia
is Yandex. It is not taken into account by
Cybermetrics Lab.
Remark 2.
Selection of units for evaluation
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According to Cybermetrics Lab methodology
the domain names of official research centers
sites are the units for assessment.
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This approach is frequently not suitable for
the investigation of the Russian academic
web space and the sites of research centers.
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In fact, the rules for choosing domain names
in Russia and other countries are different.
Remark 3. Ranking criterion
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The validity of such ranking criterion used by
Cybermetrics Lab as weighting of webindicators is not obvious for us.
Weighting of Indicators
INDICATOR
MEANING
COVERAGE
SOURCE
WEIGHT
IMPACT
Number of back
links
Number of back
domains
Current
50%
(Historical)
Majestic
SEO
ahrefs
PRESENCE
Number of
webpages(all)
Current
Google
20%
OPENNESS
Number of
papers(pdf, doc,
docx, ppt)
2007-2011
Google
Scholar
15%
EXCELLENCE
Number of
papers in the
10% top cited
2003-2010
Scimago
15%
http://webometrics.info/en/Methodology
Web ranking of Russian
research centers
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The project is supported by Russian Foundation for
Humanities.
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Carried out by IAMR of the Karelian Research Centre of
the RAS with collaboration of the Petrozavodsk university.
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Scientific advisor – Pechnikov Andrey
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Main goal – creation of information system for Web ranking
of Russian Research Centers.
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Site - http://webometrics-net.ru/
Methodology:
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to create the target set of sites of Russian research
centers;
to form a set of units for analysis;
to retrieve data from web sites which belong to the
target set using Web scraping (web harvesting or web
data extraction) - a computer software technique of
extracting information from websites;
to collect and evaluate web-indicators;
to create the Ranking Web of Russian research
centers.
Definitions
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An initial set is a set of official sites which
belong to Russian Research Centers.
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A target set is a set of investigated sites,
identified by unique domain names, given by
a direct enumeration.
Group Total
rank
rank
Russian
Academy of
sciences
Research
Center
Indicators
size
SY
visibility
SG VY
rich files
VG
RY
RG
RSc
1
2
Siberian Branch
2
4
2
2
5
13
11
2
5
Ural Branch
3
9
17
9
2
9
23
3
23
Far Eastern
Branch
20
37
30
14
17
31
32
Indexes
Y – Yandex
G – Google
Sc - Scholar
More
detailes
Reliable ranking is only possible
if the web presence is a real
mirror of a research center.
Project site
http://webometrics-net.ru/
Questions and notes are
welcome
Pechnikov Andrey – Leading Research Associate
in the Laboratory for Telecommunications
Systems Institute of Applied Mathematical
Research pechnikov@krc.karelia.ru
Kosinets Irina – senior teacher in the Department
of Software (Petrozavodsk University)
ikos@psu.karelia.ru
Thank you for attention!