TNEU in the updated Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
Recently Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (January 2019, Edition 2019.1.0.) was updated. According to the rating, Ternopil National Economic University ranked 6th among Ukrainian higher education institutions (https://www.webometrics.info/en/Europe/Ukraine%20)!
Webometrics University Ranking, is compiled by one of the largest research institutions in Europe, the Spanish National Research Council, and evaluates almost 30,000 higher education institutions from around the globe. This year 326 Ukrainian higher education institutions were considered in the rating.
Universities are evaluated using a combination of four indicators:
- PRESENCE - the number of pages on the websites in the main domain of the institution (including sub-domains and directories) that are indexed by the Google search engine - 5%;
- VISIBILITY - the number of external hyperlinks to the domain of the university - 50%;
- TRANSPARENCY - the number of citations of the top authors of the institution (the top ten authors with the exception of data on the most cited author) in the Google Academy (Top Universities by Google Scholar Citations) - 10%;
- EXCELLENCE - publicationsby the university staff in the international scientific journals that are among 10% of the most cited in their field according to the Scimago rating (for the five-year period (2012-2016) - 35%.
