Prof Hiran Amarasekera
Leader, Jayewardenepura Web Team Department of Forestry and Environment Science
How to improve your web visibility and university ranking
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World University Ranking systems
Webometrics Ranking http://www.webometrics.info
THE-QS World University Rankings http://www.topuniversities.com/
Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) produced by Shanghai Jiaotong University http://www.shanghairanking.com
Times Higher Education Ranking https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings
World University Ranking systems
World University ranking systems
QS World University ranking
Considers six differently weighted criteria on
teaching,
research,
employability and
international outlook.
Times Higher Education World University Rankings
Performance indicators :
Teaching (the learning environment)
Research (volume, income and reputation)
Citations (research influence)
International outlook (staff, students and research)
Industry income (knowledge transfer).
Webometrics ranking
Largest classification of higher educations institutions, 17,000+ universities
Conducted by Cybermetrics Lab (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain
http://www.webometrics.info/
Twice a year (January and July).
Disparity between Sri Lankan IR process and world ranking
UGC IR Manual on World Ranking
Whether Sri Lankan Universities should be encouraged to gain international rankings is another question before the academic community.
There appears to be little justification for adopting a ranking system purely for the local universities.
Webometrics ranking – Aims
To improve the presence of the academic and research institutions on the Web
To promote the open access publication of scientific results.
Webometrics – Methodology 2016
VISIBILITY No of inlinks to university website. Larger
value of the two inlinks providers (ahrefs &
Majestic),
50%
PRESENCE Total number of web pages, according to
Google, excluding pdf files
10%
OPENNESS. Number of pdf files according to Google. 10%
EXCELLENCE Scimago data (top 10% most cited papers by discipline) for the five year period 2009-2013.
30%
Webometrics – data sources
3078
2759
3198
4146
3170
4282
3752
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
4500
2012 Jan 2012 July 2013 Jan 2014 Jan 2015 Jan 2015 July 2016 Jan
World Rank of University of Sri Jayewardenepura
2016 January Ranking
5th Presence (No of webpages)
Lib.sjp.ac.lk 138,000
Staffweb.sjp.ac.lk 28,300
dl.sjp.ac.lk 15,700
Journals.sjp.ac.lk 13,600
www.sjp.ac.lk 5,070
Mgt.sjp.ac.lk 3,660
Staff.sjp.ac.lk 1,830
Science.sjp.ac.lk 1,240
Sjp.ac.lk/sites 983
Medical.sjp.ac.lk 512
graduate.sjp.ac.lk 225
Fesympo.sjp.lk 135
Fhss.sjp.ac.lk 98
Pages in each area of the site (2016 )
Sjp.ac.lk on 24 June 2016 215,000
6th in Impact rank
ahrefs.com/site-explorer
Ahref – Top Posts
majestic.com/site-explorer
Majestic – pages with highest impact
Sjp and cmb comparison - majestic
Same no of web pages in both sites but more quality content in cmb
8th in Openness rank
Number of pdf files (24/3/2016) = 2,790
8th in Excellence rank
No of research publications – Scimago – Scopus
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Scimago country rank
Ranking of Sri Lankan Universities Jan 2011
WORLD RANK UNIVERSITY SIZE VISIBILITY RICH FILES SCHOLAR
2324 University of Moratuwa 4,165 3,743 2,463 1,665
2552 University of Ruhuna 2,384 9,411 1,965 2,345
2615 U of Peradeniya 4,592 4,847 4,423 1,059
2690 University of Colombo 2,986 1,664 4,417 2,646
4189 Open University 5,622 7,599 4,339 3,111
5830 Sabaragamuwa University 9,286 11,936 6,853 2,130
6068 University of Sri Jayewardenepura 7,287 6,752 5,823 5,068
6104 University of Kelaniya 5,502 7,624 4,751 6,898
9096 University of Jaffna 11,014 5,623 8,374 6,898
10264 Eastern University of Sri Lanka 10,102 11,944 8,352 6,898
10412 Arthur C Clarke Institute 13,493 14,606 9,831 3,501
10443 Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology 7,770 11,573 12,890 6,898
World Rankings
North America
Stanford University (1st region & world),
MIT (2nd),
University of California, Berkeley (3th)
Harvard University (4th)
Europe Cambridge (1st region),
Oxford (2nd),
ETH Zurich (3rd)
World Rankings
Asia/Pacific Tokyo (59th world),
Australian National (60th),
National Taiwan (96th),
New South Wales (112th)
Kyoto (116th)
Beijing (120th) universities
Activities conducted and planned:
Strategies to improve web ranking
Strategies to improve web ranking
Publish more research – to improve Excellence rank
Publish great contents on the web – to improve Impact Rank
Presence
Publish news, activities, events, images,
media files
LMS data
Staff sites (blogs)
Student Blogs
Visibility 50%
Need to publish quality content on the web, then other websites will refer our site
eg. Thripitakaya, Buddhist books, Sinhala fonts, software
Visibility 50%
Open and Distance Learning learn.sjp.ac.lk
Publish research stories
Staff blogs staff.sjp.ac.lk
Radio radio.sjp.ac.lk
Open publishing of lecture notes
Past papers
Thesis
Visibility 50%
Journals journals.sjp.ac.lk
Video channel
Facebook page, Twitter
Linked-In
Student Blogs
Symposium/ conference sites
Openness 10%
Publish pdf files in digital library
Deposit (upload) your
research papers
Past papers
Thesis
Talks/ presentations
Scholarly/ newspaper articles
Prospectus
Excellence 30%
Need good quality research in indexed journals.
Since they are using Scimago data (based on Scopus) research published in local or foreign journals/ conferences not included in science/social science citation indices may not be important here.
Create a google Scholar profile
Publish in better impact factor Journals
Publish in OAI (Open Access) journals
Start new Journals in our journals.sjp.ac.lk
Upload your presentations, notes, papers, talks to digital library www.dl.sjp.ac.lk
Start your own blog and publish contents on staff.sjp.ac.llk
Publish quality research
www.sjp.ac.lk
University websites
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Faculties
www.sjp.ac.lk/fhss
Mgt.sjp.ac.lk
science.sjp.ac.lk
medical.sjp.ac.lk
Graduate.sjp.ac.lk
Eng.sjp.ac.lk
External.sjp.ac.lk
pes.sjp.ac.lk – Science Fac exams
lib.sjp.ac.lk – Library
staffweb.sjp.ac.lk – Staff old
www.dscs.sjp.ac.lk – Dept of computer
staff.sjp.ac.lk – Staff
examfmsc.sjp.ac.lk – Management exams
lms.sjp.ac.lk – Learning Management
Research
journals.sjp.ac.lk – Journals
dl.sjp.ac.lk – Digital library
Cdr.sjp.ac.lk – dengue research
Jobs.sjp.ac.lk - Jobs
Learn.sjp.ac.lk - Open Learning Courses
Radio.sjp.ac.lk - Online radio
Alumni.sjp.ac.lk – Alumni
Lib.sjp.ac.lk
Opac.sjp.ac.lk
Symposia and conferences
Forestry and Environment Symposium
IRCHSS –Humanities and Social Sciences
ICBM - Business Management
IIUPST - Polymer Science & Technology
Meical Faculty Scientific Sessions
Conference on Buddhist Studies
ICTPA CONFERENCE - Accounting
ICMA - Multidisciplinary Approaches
www.sjp.ac.lk/research
Staff.sjp.ac.lk
Staffweb.sjp.ac.lk (phased-out)
Student Research Blogs http://science.sjp.ac.lk/forsoc/
Now Social Media is Mass Media
Hiran Amarasekera | 2012 | www.sjp.ac.lk 56
You can reach more people with just one post in facebook than in the cover of a popular newspaper.
Need traffic to research contents!
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
MOOCs courses are free and easily
accessible online therefore large numbers of students can study high quality courses with prestigious universities.
How you can help to improve ranking?
Publish your offline contents online
PROF. HIRAN AMARASEKERA University of Sri Jayewardenepura
ADDRESS Department of Forestry and Environment Science
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Nugegoda
Sri Lanka Website:
http://staffweb.sjp.ac.lk/?q=hiran/
Email:
[email protected] PHONE 011 2804685
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