Posted on August 12, 2008 by lilyheart
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24170855-12332,00.html?from=public_rss
AUSTRALIA now has three universities in the top 100 as measured by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with the University of Sydney joining the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne.
However, the number of Australian universities in the top 500 dropped from 17 to 15.
ANU dropped slightly, from 57 to 59, in the world university [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2008 by lilyheart
http://www.cwts.nl/cwts/LeidenRankingWebSite.html
The Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, is currently developing a new ranking system entirely based on its own bibliometric indicators. This web-publication is the first in a series of rankings. The work focuses on all universities worldwide with more than 5,000 publications (Web of Science indexed). [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2008 by lilyheart
http://www.webometrics.info/
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.
The Cybermetrics Lab using quantitative methods has designed and applied indicators that allow us to measure the scientific activity on the Web. The cybermetric [...]
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