Universities in Uzbekistanand the

Webometrics Ranking

Isidro F. AguilloEditor

isidro.aguillo@csic.es

International Conference «Universities and International Rankings: First Steps»

Tashkent (Uzbekistan), January, 14-15th 2019

Agenda

An easy approach

One simple model (1:1)

One-fits-all tool (size matters)

Practical approach

Proposal with expected short-term impact

Based mostly on in-house initiatives

Bibliometric-based

Proven experience in indicators building

From local to global strategies: Quality, not only quantity

Webometrics-based

Whole approach: All university missions measured

Targeting bad practices

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Editors

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Cybermetrics Lab

• Research group of the National Research Council (CSIC)

• Spanish Largest Public Research Body

Scimago Group

• International Network of Metrics Experts

• Developers of SJR indicator

Isidro F. Aguillo

• 2 times Doctor Honoris Causa

• Derek de Solla Prize Nominee (“Nobel Prize” in Scientometrics)

Ranking

True Global Coverage

• +28000 Higher Education Institutions

• Largest Academic Database

All the University Missions

• Teaching and Research

• “Third Mission”: Internationalization, Tech/Econ/Know Transfer, Engagement

Promoting Open Science

• Open Access to Knowledge generated by the Universities

• Transparency

Why Webometrics?

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IMP

AC

T

50%

AC

TIV

ITY

50%

Refering

DOMAINS

Citing

LINKS

EXCELLENCE

Papers

PRESENCE

Web pages

OPENNESS

Profiles

5

World Coverage

3614

183

267

26

1135

2

12398

75

3728

12

1025

4

5909

198

28077

(Top 500)

July

2018

6

Regional Ranking (July 2018)

7

Uzbekistan

July 2018

10 proposals for improving in theWebometrics Ranking (and others too)

SIZE 1. Size is important

2. Everybody counts

3. Open Access Initiatives. Valuing the Output Assets

WORLD-CLASS4. Research mission. Searching for Excellence

5. Community engagement: Hosting third parties

6. Internationalization. From local to global

WEB 7. Fighting bad practices: Branding and Web Branding

8. Diagnosis and strategies for increasing Link Visibility

9. Positioning in Search Engines. Basic Rules

10. Visibility in Social Networks

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ZERO

GOVERNANCE

Who is in charge?

Ten practical proposals

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10

Common mistakes

Personnel

Faculty & support members

Students

Overall Strategy

Organization Budget

University Government

RectorPresident

Council

Contents providers

Webmaster team A few

departments

Web presence

DesignBrand

CMS

Web services

WebmasterCTI

Department

No control

Imposing

Ignoring

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Branches or independent institutions?

ONE

SIZE

is important

Ten practical proposals

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From over 250 HEIs

to 25+ Universities

Feasible

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~95HEIsin Uzbekistan

12 State

14 Technological / Industry

10 Economy / Business

8 Foreign Branches

7 Medical / Veterinary

7 Arts / Culture / Sports / Law

5 Pedagogy

4 Information Sciences / Computer

4 Agriculture

2 Languages

1 Islamic

Merging?

TWO

SIZE

Everybody counts

Top-down & Bottom-up

approaches

Ten practical proposals

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Contents: Top-down approach

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Contents

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Personal Page(s)

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A model for personal pages

7000+ webpages

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Quality Contents

THREE

OPENNESS

Increasing visibility of the

University “Treasure”

Ten practical proposals

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Best practices

• Own OA output

• Researchers Papers, chapters, books

• Doctoral dissertations & thesis

• MS thesis & similar

• Other materials (software, teach, data, unpubl.)

Repository

• One Portal

• Local journals

• Historical archives of journals (scan + OCR)

• Duplication in repo only from local authors

Portal of Journals

• All output

• Profiles: Authors, groups, schools

• Networks (visualization)

• Metrics. Multi-sources, multi-variables

• Absolute & relative

CRIS

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Open Access Institutional Repositories in Uzbekistan

…..

FOUR

WORLD-CLASS STATUS

Playing the Excellence (indicator)

in the Research Mission

Ten practical proposals

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25

Scientific Papers (Scopus)

FIVE

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

New roles transferring expertise

and resources to third parties

Ten practical proposals

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Hosting local third parties

WEB HOSTING

SIX

INTERNATIONALIZATION

Glocal = Local +Global

Ten practical proposals

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Internationalization: The problem

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From Local to Global

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Portals: Local Super-sites

http://gosamarkand.uz/

SEVEN

BRANDING

Who’s the Boss?

Ten practical proposals

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Branding: A few issues

EIGHT

VISIBILITY

Lessons from Link Analysis

Ten practical proposals

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35

Web Impact: The problem

36

Neighborhood

NINE

POSITIONING

SEO: Google Rules!

Ten practical proposals

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Metadata

TEN

SOCIAL NETWORKS

Fighting Competitors

Ten practical proposals

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Social Networks: The problem

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Wikipedia: Missed Opportunity

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Policies, mandates and individual actions

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Summarizing

Research results in

OPEN ACCESS

Research is the most

prestigious mission, the

key for achieving World-

class status

All the academic papers,

scientific monographs,

thesis and dissertations,

conference proceedings

and similar publications

should be available from

the institutional Open

Access repository

ENGLISH AND local

language

English is “lingua franca”

of scholarly

communication, useful

also for most of the

postgraduate schools and

the internationally

oriented information

But English is not

recommended instead of

local language but

besides it

Involving EVERYBODY

All the faculty members,

technicians, librarians,

post-graduate students

are candidate web

editors

The whole structure of

the university,

organization, activities,

knowledge and

technological results

should be reflected in the

websites, mainly by the

persons in charge of

each mission

QualityCONTENTS

International CONTENTS

CONTENTSA lot of!

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Thank you!

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