2018 ranking web of universities new edition webometrics

The 2018 edition of the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, also known as the "Webometrics Ranking", was published in January 2018. Here are the top 20 universities in the world according to the ranking:

  1. Harvard University (USA) - 94.2
  2. Stanford University (USA) - 93.4
  3. University of California, Berkeley (USA) - 92.5
  4. University of Oxford (UK) - 92.3
  5. University of Cambridge (UK) - 91.9
  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (USA) - 91.7
  7. University of California, Los Angeles (USA) - 91.5
  8. University of Chicago (USA) - 91.3
  9. University of Michigan (USA) - 90.9
  10. University of Toronto (Canada) - 90.7
  11. University of Washington (USA) - 90.5
  12. University of Pennsylvania (USA) - 90.4
  13. University of California, San Diego (USA) - 90.3
  14. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) - 90.2
  15. University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) - 90.1
  16. University of British Columbia (Canada) - 89.9
  17. University of Texas at Austin (USA) - 89.8
  18. University of Melbourne (Australia) - 89.7
  19. University of Sydney (Australia) - 89.6
  20. University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) - 89.5

Note that the ranking is based on three indicators:

  1. Presence (30%): the number of web pages, full-text documents, and other online resources.
  2. Impact (30%): the number of citations and references to the university's online publications.
  3. Openness (40%): the number of open-access publications, the number of open-access journals, and the number of open-access repositories.

The Webometrics Ranking is considered one of the most important and widely recognized university rankings in the world, and it is published annually by the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).