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This is new ground for us. The Webometrics Ranking Web of World Universities looks at the effectiveness of institutions projection online. Due to the automated nature of the approach, the ranking embraces some 20,000 institutions worldwide – the most extensive comparative evaluation of world universities.
At a global level the Webometrics system is probably overly generous to institutions who operate principally in English – only five institutions in the top 50 do otherwise – but at a regional level – particularly in a region where no one country has an innate advantage in English it makes for a compelling comparator. Here we have eliminated the Scholar component of the Webometrics methodology due to its overlap with our Scopus analysis and scaled the other factors up to compensate – forging this together to form a new 10% indicator.
What am I doing wrong?. When I add up the percentages of each criteria, I get 110% (¡!), i.e. academic reputation: 40%; employer reputation: 10%; citations by paper: 10%; papers per faculty: 10%; faculty student: 20%; faculty staff with PhD: 10%; and web impact: 10%.
Faculty Student contributes 20% to the world rankings, but only 10% in the context of this region, making way for the Staff with PhD indicator.