Of the three indicators, the centre improves in three, especially in openness / transparency, a parameter that measures the number of citations of the main authors of the institution, according to the source Google Scholar Citations, and in which the UV has increased by 32%, as published in a recent update, going from 910,435 to 1,328,885.

The Webometrics ranking is compiled by the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and has been published twice a year since 2004, one in late January and the second in late July. Globally, it is led by the universities of Washington, Cornell and Johns Hopkins; EidgenössischerTechnische Hochschule ETH Zürich, Edinburgh and Utrecht in Europe, and by the universities of Barcelona and Autonomous of Barcelona in Spain.

The indicators used by the ranking are impact (50%), which includes the number of external networks that have backlinks to the institution’s website; the presence (5%) or number of pages of the centre’s main web domain. It also analyses the criterion of openness / transparency (10%) or number of citations of major authors according to Google Scholar Citations and excellence (35%), consisting of the number of academic articles published in international journals of high impact.

Access to the Webometrics ranking: http://www.webometrics.info/en/world

More information Webometrics (UV Analysis and Planning Service): https://ir.uv.es/g1IQq8Y