<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>--The July 2017 edition of the <strong><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">Ranking Web of Repositories</span></strong> was <strong>cancelled</strong> after discovering many entries with a large number of webpages, exceeding several times the global output of the institution. After inspection, we realized the individual records (papers, thesis, chapters) were producing a <strong>very large</strong> number of webpages (different entries for authors, collection, keywords), so it was impossible to use the "Presence" indicator as a proxy of institutional commitment to the open access initiatives. It is not clear if this is an intended action or it is a result of using new (?) management software, but its impact is so important that radical actions were needed. <strong>(Updated 30 October 2017: The Ranking of Repositories has been cancelled definitively)</strong>.<p> Regarding the <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><strong>Ranking Web of Universities</strong></span>, we decided (July 2017 edition) to reduce the weight of the presence indicator from previous 10% to only 5% in order to limit the impact of the big repos on the global ranking of the universities. However, as several repositories are now amounting for several <strong>hundreds of thousands webpages</strong> (duplicate contents, abstracts only, salami documents, news archives, non-scientific items), a stronger measure is required for future editions.</p><p> For now and having effect on January 2018 edition, we are considering giving value equals to zero (=0) in the<strong> Presence</strong> indicator to those universities with a repository representing more than one third of their total size of their domain (number of webpages according to Google). This will marked as rank 88888.</p><p> For now and having effect on January 2018 edition, we are considering giving value equals to zero (=0) in the <strong>Openness</strong> indicator to those universities with a Journal (or group, department, project, faculty, university or similar non-personal) profile in the Top 10 Google Scholar profiles of their institutional or email-domain filtered profiles. This will marked as rank 77777.</p> (Updated 30 October 2017. Further changes can be applied in new revisions before next edition) <div><a href="http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/193">http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/193</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Dr Heila Pienaar</div><div>Deputy Director: Strategic Innovation</div><div>Department of Library Services</div><div>University of Pretoria, South Africa</div><div>Tel: 012 4202020</div><div>CV: <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/heila1/dr-heila-pienaar-cv-aug2017/1" target="_blank">https://www.slideshare.net/heila1/dr-heila-pienaar-cv-aug2017/1</a> </div></div></div></div></div>
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