The new editions of the Rankings Web of Universities (now in its 11th year) and Research Centers have been published with data collected during July 2014. The rankings consist now of close to 22000 Higher Education Institutions and 8000 Research Centers with their own independent web presence. http://www.webometrics.info/ http://research.webometrics.info/ Ranking is built combining the following variables: Web presence, including general information, structure and organization, governance and transparency related documents, learning supporting items, technology transfer or community engagement among other webpages; Visibility, a virtual referendum about the global impact of such web contents; Openness, the commitment of the University to the open access initiatives through its institutional repository, portal of academic journals and availability of the full texts papers in the personal pages of their authors and Excellence, the number of highly cited papers (top 10% most cited) in 21 disciplines by is faculty members. In the current edition the top ranked universities are: 1. Harvard University 2. MIT 3. Stanford University 4. Cornell University 5. University of Michigan 6. University of California Berkeley 7= Columbia University 8= University of Washington 9. University of Minnesota 10. University of Pennsylvania Countries with Universities in the Top Hundred USA 66 Canada 7 UK 4 Germany 3 China 3 Japan 2 Switzerland 2 Netherlands 1 Australia 1 Italy 1 South Korea 1 Taiwan 1 Belgium 1 Hong Kong 1 Brazil 1 Austria 1 Czech Republic 1 Singapore 1 Mexico 1 The Top Ranked in Region are: USA Harvard Canada Toronto Latin America Sao Paulo Caribbean University of the West Indies Europe Oxford Russia Lomonosov MSU Africa University of Cape Town Asia Seoul National University China Peking Japan Tokyo South Asia IIT Bombay Southeast Asia National University of Singapore Middle East Hebrew University of Jerusalem Arab World King Saud University Oceania Melbourne BRICS Sao Paulo -- ************************************ Isidro F. Aguillo, HonDr. The Cybermetrics Lab, IPP-CSIC Grupo Scimago Madrid. SPAIN isidro.aguillo@csic.es ORCID 0000-0001-8927-4873 ResearcherID: A-7280-2008 Scholar Citations SaCSbeoAAAAJ Twitter @isidroaguillo Rankings Web webometrics.info ************************************ --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com