UNIMIB.IT on Webometrics: new strong performance

Webometrics publishes, in a biannual fashion, a ranking of universities' websites, produced by a formula that takes into account the size of the site, the number of downloadable documents, the visibility online and the number of google scholar entries. We still have a positive trend and during the latter half we went up 145 positions!

Milano-Bicocca's ranking during the years; the lower, the better

Once again Milano-Bicocca pays for the size of the site, intended as the "number of pages recovered on four different search engines". We have a lot of information spread in too many satellite websites, like faculties and departments.

A very positive score comes from Google Scholar indicator: Bicocca-related research documents have grown a lot during the latter years: in 2007 we were in 682th position, now we have reached the 277th. It's a very good result, probably due to the introduction of BOA service, despite the fact that Milano-Bicocca is one of the youngest universities.

Since this january, Milano-Bicocca is featured in the Top-500 ranking, placing in the 477th position and widening Italy's slice a little bit.

Milano-Bicocca improves its Webometrics ranking

Webometrics ranking of world universities shows information about world universities, ranked according to indicators measuring web presence, link visibility, size and number of documents available for download. Since 2004 this chart is done by the Spanish National Research Council, and gets updated every six months.

Milan-Bicocca's website has a strongly positive trend as we raised 325 positions since 2007; during the last year we jumped 19 positions.

Observing the data, one notes that we pay for the size of our site, intended as the "number of pages recovered on four different search engines". We have a lot of information spread on satellite website, like faculties. It's not clear, according to the methodological note, if those pages are counted or not.

Moreover, there's an important issue connected with our research institutions. Isidro Aguillo, editor of the ranking, writes: "the rankings of universities of Germany, France, Italy and Spain come later [than British and nordic ones], mostly due to the fact that research in this countries is developed by independent institutions (Max Planck, CNRS, CNR, CSIC)". Therefore, our ranking is strongly lowered by this kind of structure.