A Universidade do Porto no Webometrics - Ranking Web of Universities July 2015

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A Universidade do Porto no

Webometrics - Ranking Web of Universities July 2015

Universidade do Porto. Reitoria. Serviço de Melhoria Contínua 2 de setembro de 2015

Sumário

I. Metodologia do Webometrics ... 2

II. Evolução da posição da Universidade do Porto no Webometrics ... 4

III. Posição das Universidades portuguesas no Webometrics – jul e jan 2015 ... 5

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Universidade do Porto no Webometrics - Ranking Web of

Universities July 2015

http://www.webometrics.info/

I. Metodologia do Webometrics

“The Ranking Web or Webometrics is the largest academic ranking of Higher Education Institutions. Since 2004 and every six months an independent, objective, free, open scientific exercise is performed by the Cybermetrics Lab (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC) for the providing reliable, multidimensional, updated and useful information about the performance of universities from all over the world based on their web presence and impact.

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Objectives and motivation

The original aim of the Ranking is to promote academic web presence, supporting the Open Access initiatives for increasing significantly the transfer of scientific and cultural knowledge generated by the universities to the whole Society. In order to achieve this objective, the publication of rankings is one of the most powerful and successful tools for starting and consolidating the processes of change in the academia, increasing the scholars’ commitment and setting up badly needed long term strategies.

The objective is not to evaluate websites, their design or usability or the popularity of their contents according to the number of visits or visitors. Web indicators are considered as proxies in the correct, comprehensive, deep evaluation of the university global performance, taking into account its activities and outputs and their relevance and impact.

At the end a reliable rank is only possible if the web presence is a trustworthy mirror of the university. In the second decade of the 21st century the Web is key for the future of all the university missions, as it is already the most important scholarly communication tool, the future channel for the off-campus distance learning, the open forum for the community engagement and the universal showcase for attracting talent, funding and resources.

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Design and Weighting of Indicators

Webometrics uses an “a-priori” scientific model for building the composite indicator. Other rankings choose arbitrary weights for strongly dependent variables and even combine raw values with ratios. None of them follow a logical ratio between activity related and impact related variables, i.e. each group representing 50% of the total weighting. Referring to the individual variables, some of them have values larger than zero for only a few universities and others segregate universities according to differences so small that they are even lower than their error rates.

Prior to combination the values should be normalized, but the practice of using percentages is mostly incorrect due to the power law distribution of the data.

Webometrics log-normalize the variables before combining according to a ratio 1:1 between activity/presence and visibility/impact groups of indicators.

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The current composite indicator is now built as follows:

Visibility (50%)

IMPACT. The quality of the contents is evaluated through a "virtual referendum", counting all the

external inlinks that the University webdomain receives from third parties. Those links are recognizing the institutional prestige, the academic performance, the value of the information, and the usefulness of the services as introduced in the webpages according to the criteria of millions of web editors from all over the world. The link visibility data is collected from the two most important providers of this information: Majestic SEO and ahrefs. Both use their own crawlers, generating different databases that should be used jointly for filling gaps or correcting mistakes. The indicator is the product of square root of the number of backlinks and the number of

domains originating those backlinks, so it is not only important the link popularity but even more

the link diversity. The maximum of the normalized results is the impact indicator.

Activity (50%)

PRESENCE (1/3). The total number of webpages hosted in the main webdomain (including all the

subdomains and directories) of the university as indexed by the largest commercial search engine (Google). It counts every webpage, including all the formats recognized individually by Google, both static and dynamic pages and other rich files. It is not possible to have a strong presence without the contribution of everybody in the organization as the top contenders are already able to

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publish millions of webpages. Having additional domains or alternative central ones for foreign languages or marketing purposes penalizes in this indicator and it is also very confusing for external users.

OPENNESS (1/3). The global effort to set up institutional research repositories is explicitly

recognized in this indicator that takes into account the number of rich files (pdf, doc, docx, ppt) published in dedicated websites according to the academic search engine Google Scholar. Both the total files Both the total records and those with correctly formed file names are considered (for example, the Adobe Acrobat files should end with the suffix .pdf). The objective is to consider recent publications that now are those published between 2008 and 2012 (new period).

EXCELLENCE (1/3). The academic papers published in high impact international journals are

playing a very important role in the ranking of Universities. Using simply the total number of papers can be misleading, so we are restricting the indicator to only those excellent publications, i.e. the university scientific output being part of the 10% most cited papers in their respective scientific fields. Although this is a measure of high quality output of research institutions, the data provider Scimago group supplied non-zero values for more than 5200 universities (period 2003-2010). In future editions it is intended to match the counting periods between Scholar and Scimago sources.”1

“Ranking Web 2015: Edition 2.1 (July data, with corrections)

The July edition is built with the indicators obtained during this month in order to maintain the freshness of the data of the most current and updated Ranking of Universities. After publication on the July 31th we received evidence of bad practices by a few universities, so a corrected edition was needed. […] Info provided here supersedes the contents provided in Methodology

Please, take into account that the following information: […]

- Exclusion of universities is reserved for diploma-mills, fake or doubtful institutions. Our decisions regarding not inclusion are final and we do not make any email exchange about these issues. However the absence of an institution could be due to an error. […]

- Universities without full 24/7 webservers availability are excluded. Our criteria are not to rank those universities failing to answer our ping requests to their servers during two consecutive months' requests.

- As previously informed, we also changed our policy regarding the universities with two or more central web domains, a bad practice that it is going to be even more penalized than before. Until now, all the main web domains of the university were ranked, but only the one with the better web indicators was published, even if this was the old or the not-preferred one in the central homepage. This procedure is still applied when both domains maintain their independence, but if the old domain redirects to the new one, this will be the one ranked and published. As expected, this is having strong (negative) impact on a few universities.

Changes in the calculation of indicators

Published figures are RANKS (lower is better), intended for showing individual performances, but they are not the values used in the calculations. Due to technical issues a few changes have been done:

- Regarding PRESENCE. Total number of web pages, according to Google, excluding pdf files. Weight: 10%

- Regarding VISIBILITY. Instead of using the larger value of the two inlinks providers (ahrefs & Majestic), we use now the average. As previously the 10 top linking domains and their corresponding backlinks are excluded. Weight: 50%

- Regarding OPENNESS. Google Scholar is no longer used for this indicator. Now, the value refers to the total number of pdf files according to Google. Weight: 10%

- Regarding EXCELLENCE. The Scimago data (top 10% most cited papers by discipline) for the five year period 2009-2013 (new period). New Weight: 30%”2

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II. Evolução

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da posição da Universidade do Porto no Webometrics

2006 2006 2007 2007 2008 2008 2009 2009

jan jul jan jul jan jul jan jul

Ranking Mundo 447 269 264 261 251 267 271 149

Ranking Europa 163 96 93 96 87 99 101 40

Ranking Iberoamérica n/d n/d n/d n/d n/d n/d n/d 6

Ranking Portugal 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

2010 2010 2011 2011 2012 2012 2013 2013

jan jul jan jul jan jul jan jul

Ranking Mundo 214 230 178 178 79 70 93 103

Ranking Europa 67 79 49 50 12 8 17 16

Ranking Iberoamérica 6 12 8 11 5 3 4 4

Ranking Portugal 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1

2014 2014 20154 20155

jan jul jan jul

Ranking Mundo # 110 125 137 162 Nº de IES n/d n/d 23800+ ≈25000 Ranking Europa # 20 33 38 52 Nº de IES n/d n/d 6163 6053 Ranking Iberoamérica # 4 4 5 6 Nº de IES n/d n/d 4145 4103 Ranking Portugal # 1 1 1 1 Nº de IES n/d n/d 109 110 n/d : não disponível

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“Evolução das posições da Universidade do Porto nos rankings universitários”, janeiro de 2014, in

https://sigarra.up.pt/up/pt/conteudos_service.conteudos_cont?pct_id=20113&pv_cod=55GoHdmanvIq

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III. Posição das Universidades portuguesas no Webometrics – jul e jan 2015

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Portugal Rank Europa Rank Mundo Rank

IES Presence Rank Impact Rank Openness Rank Excellence Rank

jul15 jan15 jul15 jan15 jul15 jan15 jul15 jan15 jul15 jan15 jul15 jan15 jul15 jan15

1 1 52 38 162 137 Universidade do Porto 97 125 221 271 141 93 213 243

2 3 116 110 291 288 Universidade de Coimbra 226 305 443 520 223 209 382 427

3 2 130 85 319 228 Universidade do Minho 80 144 469 424 306 60 481 492

4 4 176 140 424 354 Universidade Nova de Lisboa 311 129 790 799 421 213 459 504

5 6 210 344 503 859 Universidade de Lisboa 493 895 2485 3977 259 717 150 176

6 5 232 194 551 470 Universidade de Aveiro 747 555 1203 1305 844 175 410 437

7 9 389 432 966 1101 Universidade Católica Portuguesa 1450 2029 1199 1767 685 520 1453 1631

8 7 431 363 1078 918 Universidade da Beira Interior 791 931 2133 1719 984 573 1165 1270

9 8 435 383 1099 970 Universidade de Évora 1162 1146 2018 2092 776 283 1276 1322

10 11 460 487 1164 1281 Universidade do Algarve 2217 2734 2589 2895 826 838 1079 1139

11 10 465 462 1171 1185 Instituto Politécnico do Porto 2228 1980 2360 2443 981 649 1165 1316

12 12 556 519 1404 1377 Universidade de Tras os Montes e Alto Douro 2401 2790 3474 3350 1665 921 1132 1079

13 17 625 639 1658 1737 Universidade da Madeira 2665 2822 3040 3368 2356 1764 1706 1798

14 13 626 570 1660 1537 Universidade dos Açores 2190 2611 3229 3105 1269 857 1815 1798

15 15 640 602 1704 1637 Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa 2178 1985 4127 4416 1272 736 1558 1657

16 14 662 593 1788 1595 Instituto Politécnico de Bragança 1765 1722 4561 4963 1306 455 1610 1566

17 16 684 628 1894 1702 Instituto Superior Politécnico de Viseu 3458 3895 2690 2599 1741 1145 2361 2333

18 21 693 730 1913 2067 Instituto Politécnico de Leiria 3792 4511 3708 3827 2461 1948 1868 2025

19 19 707 673 1975 1858 Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias 3392 3581 3830 3869 2955 1069 1941 2041

20 20 742 685 2102 1910 Universidade Fernando Pessoa 5106 4599 4261 4273 1839 726 2060 2010

21 18 754 657 2152 1800 ISCTE Instituto Universitário de Lisboa 2466 2112 5549 5759 3880 444 1683 1735

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IES

Presence Rank Impact Rank Openness Rank Excellence Rank

22 23 806 852 2339 2508 Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal 3083 2673 4296 4385 2953 3870 2417 2459

23 34 863 1577 2579 5567 Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre 4098 5418 836 5676 5198 9167 4569 4421

24 25 883 980 2681 3073 Universidade Aberta 2384 2961 4161 7817 2833 1172 3093 3200

25 28 910 1047 2786 3350 Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo 2653 3772 5314 6470 2208 3245 2945 3133 26 22 919 812 2831 2340 Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada 1783 209 7320 7378 2408 1398 2526 2663 27 24 946 923 2927 2800 Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco 3454 3935 6184 6643 1926 850 2908 3084

28 26 953 987 2966 3105 Instituto Politécnico de Tomar 4716 3411 5780 6019 2874 3375 2881 2891

29 27 986 1015 3168 3211 Instituto Politécnico de Beja 4251 4414 5008 5167 2650 2436 3482 3695

30 35 988 1605 3173 5668 Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra 8060 7114 9308 9750 5964 12377 1903 2084

31 29 1028 1068 3413 3427 Instituto Politécnico de Santarém 2463 3127 6123 6357 1839 1945 3750 3980

32 31 1082 1412 3650 4876 Instituto Superior da Maia 6986 8045 9695 9806 3731 4683 2597 2843

33 32 1104 1484 3764 5178 Instituto Politécnico do Cavado e do Ave 5837 5783 8956 8817 3866 5732 2945 3596 34 43 1136 2075 3941 7528

Cooperativa de Ensino Superior, Politécnico e

Universitario 7655 8543 11874 12328 4719 11175 2210 2459

35 30 1193 1218 4261 4027 Instituto Politécnico de Guarda 6978 6537 7000 7207 2261 1295 3964 4421

36 36 1265 1666 4647 5932 Instituto Piaget 7310 7200 9172 9410 6809 6642 3364 3596

37 40 1690 1924 6715 6931 Instituto Superior Politécnico de Gaya 4013 3466 8596 8558 7858 6720 4898 5414

38 33 1899 1547 7464 5436 Universidades Lusíada de Lisboa 3325 5223 9499 9840 2388 1151 5490 5414

39 37 1935 1712 7588 6119 Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra 4711 3955 8910 8761 3548 3990 5490 5414 40 48 2022 2365 7883 8679 Instituto de Artes Visuais, Design e Marketing 14794 14950 8476 8691 6359 7022 4898 4808 41 49 2078 2629 8142 9731 Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra 6826 7110 11037 11639 9824 12377 4569 4158 42 44 2172 2109 8482 7676 Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto 3723 2369 12795 13101 7715 4861 4569 4808 43 42 2196 2069 8619 7513 Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa 8346 8961 9816 9820 3096 3678 5490 5414 44 53 2198 2987 8619 11182 Instituto Superior de Linguas e Administração Leiria 7940 7776 7728 11317 12231 10780 5490 5414

45 46 2205 2255 8646 8252 Instituto Superior Miguel Torga 8141 9108 11204 11930 5677 2624 4898 5414

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IES

47 47 2270 2266 8957 8287 Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra 4665 6763 11061 11438 3251 4237 5490 5414 48 59 2349 3201 9268 11876 Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril 11493 11437 11658 12057 4310 8919 4898 5414

49 45 2364 2205 9326 8011 Escola Superior Agrária de Elvas 17351 17354 7157 5716 10155 6537 5490 5414

50 55 2381 3047 9395 11378 Universidade Lusofona do Porto 11104 11072 12784 13257 19101 13206 3569 3695 51 52 2458 2907 9685 10917 Escola Superior de Saúde de Portalegre 17314 17606 8021 7812 9118 10269 5490 5414 52 41 2500 2038 9833 7388 Escola Superior de Educação Paula Frassinetti 4718 5864 12069 12479 4187 1920 5490 5414 53 77 2601 4182 10233 14994 Escola Superior de Saúde Egas Moniz 17880 18103 16627 17258 9789 13206 3252 3424 54 68 2651 3706 10417 13500 Escola Náutica Infante Dom Henrique 16011 15166 12993 13398 7304 8954 4569 5414 55 71 2677 3784 10499 13718 Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências 11289 11600 12417 14678 8966 9167 4898 5414 56 57 2717 3099 10671 11571 Escola Superior de Artes e Design Matosinhos 12506 12590 9012 9182 14902 13206 5490 5414 57 50 2727 2757 10699 10290 Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra 10794 10774 11553 11997 5198 5569 5490 5414 58 51 2876 2886 11228 10834 Instituto Superior Dom Afonso III 17617 14218 13442 13393 12928 6225 4318 4421 59 54 2897 2995 11298 11214 Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa 14794 14559 13558 14156 5736 4731 4898 4808 60 58 2905 3123 11317 11641

Instituto Portugues de Administração de Marketing

Aveiro / Porto / Lisboa 14388 14680 10421 10486 11004 9270 5490 5414

61 60 2936 3341 11405 12371 Universidades Lusíada de Famalicão 8814 9083 13631 13766 2983 8739 5490 5414 62 69 2971 3748 11498 13621 Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectaculo 17529 17214 11134 11336 5736 12377 5490 5414 63 64 3050 3522 11759 12898 Escola Superior Artistica do Porto 12456 12896 11976 11126 7956 13206 5490 5414 64 56 3122 3085 11983 11514

Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de

Coimbra 7489 8276 13036 13000 9806 8233 5490 5414

65 66 3290 3643 12506 13312 Escola Superior de Tecnología e Gestão de Portalegre 7062 8642 13893 14462 9774 10552 5490 5414 66 63 3348 3503 12672 12848 Instituto Superior de Ciências Empresariais e Turismo 12058 12264 12943 13541 9938 8340 5490 5414 67 65 3377 3548 12750 12991 Instituto Superior de Gestão 14749 13195 10998 11217 20538 13206 4898 5414 68 74 3385 3875 12769 13997

Universidade Europeia (Instituto Superior de Linguas e

Administração Lisboa) 6257 5492 14402 15474 10125 13206 5490 5414

69 72 3474 3812 13063 13799 Academia Militar Portugal 13903 13734 14277 14503 19804 13206 4318 4421

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IES

71 70 3534 3775 13260 13696 Escola Superior de Tecnología da Saúde de Coimbra 10641 9531 14869 14923 6423 9958 5490 5414 72 76 3643 4101 13627 14734 Escola Superior de Saúde de Alcoitão 17816 19137 14714 14640 12615 12377 4898 4421 73 62 3734 3463 13879 12724 Escola Superior de Educação de Portalegre 9365 8823 15284 15521 9896 6807 5490 5414 74 80 3919 4235 14454 15168 Escuela Universitaria das Artes de Coimbra 14816 15494 14072 13895 14188 13206 5490 5414

75 84 4092 4471 14986 15853 Escola Superior Gallaecia 16215 15337 15458 15712 10294 11175 5490 5414

76 79 4105 4221 15033 15126 Instituto Superior de Comunicaçao Empresarial 18255 18228 15024 15494 10690 8014 5490 5414 77 87 4218 4648 15365 16395

Instituto Superior de Ciências da Informação e de

Administração 17157 18465 14653 14756 15435 13206 5490 5414

78 105 4231 5601 15409 20231 Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa 15129 14551 18570 20813 7081 13206 4898 5414 79 75 4341 3932 15786 14192 Instituto Superior de Administração e Gestão 8625 8596 14235 14656 21671 13206 5490 5414 80 93 4345 4922 15804 17345

Instituto Superior de Tecnologías Avançadas Lisboa /

Porto 21375 20870 15396 15435 10311 13206 5490 5414

81 78 4372 4216 15894 15113 Instituto Superior Novas Profissões 14990 14928 13793 13971 20114 13206 5490 5414 82 73 4377 3821 15913 13837

Escola Superior de Tecnologías e Artes de Lisboa

ESTAL 16991 17112 16303 13163 11732 9167 5490 5414

83 92 4460 4916 16197 17323 Instituto Superior de Paços de Brandão 13949 17539 16307 16499 15706 13206 5490 5414 84 82 4582 4381 16567 15610 Instituto Superior de Saúde do Alto Ave 18094 17615 16559 16471 13591 10269 5490 4808 85 85 4619 4584 16678 16175 Instituto de Estudos Superiores de Fafe 11200 13314 16217 15954 19101 13206 5490 5414

86 91 4624 4858 16710 17122 Escola Naval da Marinha 20107 20367 16082 16034 14651 11175 5490 5414

87 96 4666 5011 16854 17705 Escola Superior de Actividades Imobiliarias 18604 19175 16982 16508 13048 13206 5490 5414 88 88 4667 4694 16866 16574 Instituto de Estudos Superiores Financeiros e Fiscais 19565 19232 15715 15776 17326 10734 5490 5414 89 86 4671 4603 16885 16258 Instituto Superior Autónomo de Estudos Politécnicos 11140 11567 16402 16544 19320 13206 5490 5414 90 97 4676 5100 16898 18042

Instituto Superior de Administração e Línguas da

Madeira 19382 19378 16900 16954 12866 13206 5490 5414

91 89 4692 4835 16964 17071 Escola Superior de Educação João de Deus 19994 19855 16024 15380 16330 13206 5490 5414 92 81 4796 4330 17389 15463 Instituto Superior de Serviço Social do Porto 7850 8079 16703 17040 21671 12377 5490 5414 93 95 4834 4963 17583 17499 Instituto Superior de Gestão Bancaria 15544 14523 18643 18674 11767 9958 5490 5414 94 102 4841 5275 17592 18701 Escola Superior Artistica do Porto Guimaraes 18520 18952 17704 17907 14060 13206 5490 5414

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IES

95 61 4843 3364 17592 12435 Universidades Lusíada do Porto 7142 6590 20462 12652 7103 13206 5490 5414

96 98 4856 5122 17621 18122 Escola Superior de Enfermagem de São José de Cluny 11753 10298 19403 19310 10518 13206 5490 5414 97 103 4861 5300 17643 18788

Escola Superior de Enfermagem São Francisco das

Misericórdias 15112 14531 18959 19109 10733 13206 5490 5414

98 90 4876 4857 17704 17120 Escola Universitária Vasco da Gama 16071 15323 21705 19056 13190 13206 3839 4158 99 99 4961 5141 18020 18196 Escola Superior de Educadores de Infância Maria Ulrich 22193 20121 17839 17755 11626 10780 5490 5414 100 101 4972 5256 18067 18633

Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais e Segurança

Interna 19363 19626 18585 18618 12032 10269 5490 5414

101 83 5062 4390 18420 15626 Escola Superior de Educação de Torres Novas 15624 17407 17514 17346 19804 6375 5490 5414 102 94 5094 4941 18532 17411 Escola Superior de Educação Almeida Garret 15359 15025 17344 17315 20538 13206 5490 5414 103 104 5104 5395 18572 19233 Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Vila Real 22375 22354 18033 17756 14083 12377 5490 5414 104 100 5188 5167 18907 18285

Escola Superior de Enfermagem Dr José Timóteo

Montalvão Machado 19074 18485 19738 19470 11428 8014 5490 5414

105 106 5442 5649 19990 20434 Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Santa Maria 17252 14620 20288 21327 17267 12060 5490 5414 106 108 5559 5658 20510 20482

Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas

Odivelas/Mangualde/Felgueiras 23372 23430 17343 17652 21671 13206 5490 5414 107 107 5580 5650 20598 20436 Instituto Superior de Entre Douro e Vouga 23121 23247 18153 18218 21671 13206 5490 5414 108 109 5782 5873 21660 21666

Universidade dos Açores Escola Superior de

Enfermagem de Angra do Heroismo 22775 22188 21318 21178 18271 13206 5490 5414

109 38 5924 1785 22606 6385 Universidade Atlântica 13262 2802 23025 14248 13839 2261 4898 4158

110 n/d 5965 n/d 22912 n/d Instituto Politécnico da Maia 16032 #N/D 23025 #N/D 13895 #N/D 5490 #N/D