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WEBOMETRICS RANKING: YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY HOLDS 1051ST POSITION AMONG OVER 20,000 UNIVERSITIES OF THE WORLD
arminfo
Tuesday, August 30, 17:07
According to the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, the
Yerevan State University (YSU) has gained the 1051st position among
over 20,000 universities, YSU Rector Aram Simonyan said at today's
press conference when replying to ArmInfo correspondent's question. He
added that according to Webometrics, YSU is in the lead among the
Armenian universities.
"This is a prestigious world rating. We think that YSU's index is
high enough, taking into account that about 24,000 universities in
the world were rated by Webometrics. Most of these universities are
in Europe and approximately 8,000 of them are in the United States.
Certainly, we do not compare ourselves with the Universities
of Cambridge or Harvard. But we occupy good positions among the
universities similar to YSU", he stressed.
Simonyan added that in order not to be behind the dynamically
developing trends of world science and education, YSU is constantly
working at new projects and cooperates with foreign universities. One
of these projects envisages possible reception of two diplomas
simultaneously.
At present, 15 students of YSU are studying at one of German
universities alongside with their education at the Yerevan State
Universities. "As a result, they will be awarded two diplomas",
he said.
Simonyan also pointed out that approximately 1280 lecturers currently
work at YSU, among them 180 professors and over 460 PhDs.
To note, the Webometrics University Ranking is a ranking system
based on university web presence, visibility and web access. This
ranking system measures how strongly a university is present in the
web by its own web domain, sub-pages, rich files, scholarly articles
etc.The central hypothesis of this approach is that web presence
is a reliable indicator of the global performance and prestige of
the universities and as such, is an indirect way to measure all the
university missions (teaching, research, transfer). Although the Web
is universally recognized as the one of the most relevant tools for
scholarly communication, it is still very rare these indicators are
used for the evaluation of the scientific research and the academic
performance of universities. Webometric indicators are provided to
show the commitment of the institutions to Web publication.
arminfo
Tuesday, August 30, 17:07
According to the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, the
Yerevan State University (YSU) has gained the 1051st position among
over 20,000 universities, YSU Rector Aram Simonyan said at today's
press conference when replying to ArmInfo correspondent's question. He
added that according to Webometrics, YSU is in the lead among the
Armenian universities.
"This is a prestigious world rating. We think that YSU's index is
high enough, taking into account that about 24,000 universities in
the world were rated by Webometrics. Most of these universities are
in Europe and approximately 8,000 of them are in the United States.
Certainly, we do not compare ourselves with the Universities
of Cambridge or Harvard. But we occupy good positions among the
universities similar to YSU", he stressed.
Simonyan added that in order not to be behind the dynamically
developing trends of world science and education, YSU is constantly
working at new projects and cooperates with foreign universities. One
of these projects envisages possible reception of two diplomas
simultaneously.
At present, 15 students of YSU are studying at one of German
universities alongside with their education at the Yerevan State
Universities. "As a result, they will be awarded two diplomas",
he said.
Simonyan also pointed out that approximately 1280 lecturers currently
work at YSU, among them 180 professors and over 460 PhDs.
To note, the Webometrics University Ranking is a ranking system
based on university web presence, visibility and web access. This
ranking system measures how strongly a university is present in the
web by its own web domain, sub-pages, rich files, scholarly articles
etc.The central hypothesis of this approach is that web presence
is a reliable indicator of the global performance and prestige of
the universities and as such, is an indirect way to measure all the
university missions (teaching, research, transfer). Although the Web
is universally recognized as the one of the most relevant tools for
scholarly communication, it is still very rare these indicators are
used for the evaluation of the scientific research and the academic
performance of universities. Webometric indicators are provided to
show the commitment of the institutions to Web publication.