Webometrics on January 2012: Rich Files of UMM is on the Fifth Rank in the World and the First in Indonesia
Last night, February 3 2012, Cybermetrics Lab CSIC Spain has issued
webometrics world ranking university. A number of 20.300 university website from all over the world have been assessed and scored for their ranks at world, regional, or national levels.
There were many significant ranking changes in Indonesia. Petra, UM, and UMM which were usually on big ten now were between rank 10 to 20. It was caused by the changing method of assessment employed by the Cybermetrics Lab CSIC.
The major changing was on the methodology. Link analysis was used as the main component of assessment composite index. Visibility was scored from integrating external inlinks and domain based on Majestic SEO. Dealing with activity indicator, the number of Scimago scientific papers were included in the global scoring process with significant weight. Since there was different stability of diferent search engine, it was decided to use Google as the source of all indicators. The indicators are: Visibility (number of external links with amount of 50%), Size (number of web page with amount of 10%), Rich Files (number of content in the form of pdf, doc + docx, ppt + ppts and ps + eps files with amount of 10%), and Scholar (number of scientific papers in Google Scholar for the period of 2007-2011 plus other papers in 2003-2010 which are collected by the Scimago with amount of 30%.
Although the UMM experienced a decreased webometric ranking in January 2012, but there was a phenomenal achievement. UMM was on the fifth rank in the world and the first rank in Indonesia for its Rich Files indicator. The university was below the Universität Freiburg (Germany), Al Imam Mohamed Ibn Saud Islamic University (Saudi Arabia), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), and Pennsylvania State University (3) (USA). This is a rank table of the Rich Files indicator:
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World Rank
|
Universities
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Country of Origin
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|
1
|
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Germany
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|
2
|
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Saudi Arabia
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|
3
|
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USA
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|
4
|
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USA
|
|
5
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Indonesia
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At this moment, the files that exist at the University of Muhammadiyah Malang website from 2006-2010 that are indexed by google is as follows:
|
No
|
File Type
|
Amount
|
|
1
|
.doc / .doxx |
262.000
|
|
2
|
.ppt / .pptx |
1.940
|
|
3
|
.PDF |
615.000
|
|
4
|
.PS |
228.000
|
| |
AMOUNTS |
1.106.940
|
UMM must be grateful for its achievement. It has been achieved through hard work from all the website management staff. It is expected that the UMM rank would increase on the next July 2012.
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