Transparent ranking: Constantine 1 university, the first in Algeria  

The university “Des Frères Mentouri” Constantine 1 won first place at the national level among 107 campuses according to the ranking of scientific citation.It is followed by USTHB and M'sila university. This ranking is established according to the scientific citations listed in Google scholar.

Obviously, American universities remain unbeatable in the World.

The "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities" is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de InvestigacionesCientíficas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain.

The Cybermetrics Lab, part of the CSIC, is devoted to the quantitative analysis of the Internet and Web contents specially those related to the processes of generation and scholarly communication of scientific knowledge. This is a new emerging discipline that has been called Cybermetrics or Webometrics.

The Cybermetrics Lab using quantitative methods has designed and applied indicators that allow us to measure the scientific activity on the Web. The cybermetric indicators are useful to evaluate science and technology and they are the perfect complement to the results obtained with bibliometric methods in scientometric studies

The specific areas of research include:

• Development of Web indicators to be applied on the areas of the Spanish, European, Latinamerican and World R&D
• Quantitative studies about the scientific communication through electronic journals and repositories, and the impact of the Open Access initiatives.
• Development of indicators about resources in the Society of Information
• Indicators and social networks visualization on the Web with friendly, dynamic and interactive graphic interfaces
• Desing and evaluation of documental analysis techniques of Web resources
• Genre studies applied to the scholar activity on the Web
• Development of applied cybermetrics techniques based on the positioning on search engines of Web domains
• Analysis of the information usage through Web data mining of log files

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