January edition of Webometrics Ranking of World Universities 2021: Lviv Polytechnic is the tenth among Ukrainian universities

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The Spanish National Research Council has released the January edition of the Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics) 2021.

The ranking provides Web indicators for more than 31,000 universities worldwide, including 316 Ukrainian. The aim of the Ranking is to improve the presence of the academic and research institutions on the Web and to promote the open access publication of scientific results.

The January edition (2021.1.0) is built with the following ranks:

  • Impact – a combination of the number of external hyperlinks to the university domain and the number of domains from which these links come (share – 50%);
  • Openness – the number of files available on the university website in Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint, indexed by Google Scholar (share – 10%);
  • Excellence – the number of scientific articles published by the University authors in journals indexed by Scopus, and is part of the 10% of articles most cited in their scientific fields, according to Scimago Group (share – 40%).

According to the updated results of the ranking, the three leaders among Ukrainian universities are Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, National Technical University of Ukraine Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and Sumy State University.

Lviv Polytechnic National University ranks 10th. However, it should be noted that in terms of Excellence, our University is the second in Ukraine.

Top 10 Universities in Webometrics Rankings

Ranking World
Rank
University Impact
Rank
Openness
Rank
Excellence
Rank
1 1162 National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv 1870 894 1402
2 1597 National Technical University of Ukraine Kyiv Polytechnic Institute 1193 934 2847
3 1796 Sumy State University 2767 1099 2459
4 2380 Kharkiv National University VN Karazin 3586 4689 2212
5 2542 National Technical University Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute 4589 1069 3277
6 2578 National Aerospace University Kharkiv Aviation Institute 3924 1986 3298
7 2605 National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (National Agricultural University) 4856 1257 3260
8 2667 Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics 6852 1458 2722
9 2799 National Mining University of Ukraine 3812 2301 3718
10 2923 Lviv Polytechnic National University 5636 5954 1621


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