The partner of the KFU Championship has improved its performance in the Webometrics rating

The latest version of the Webometrics university website ranking has been published. Kazan Federal University, which is a partner Reliable Change Foundation and his flagship project International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", managed to significantly improve its previous result, rising to 756th place in the world (in July 2020 – 792 position).

In the context of the main indicators of the rating, there is an increase in CFCs for each of them. A consistently positive trend is observed in the Excellence index, which shows the number of scientific publications of the university over a five-year period (2015-2019) included in the group of the most cited works on Scimago (top 10%). The same situation is noted by the Openness indicator, which reflects the number of citations of the top 210 authors in the Google Scholar system (with the exception of the top 20). There is also a positive trend in the Visibility (Impact) indicator, which evaluates the number and variety of links from external resources to the university's website.

"This year, there have been significant changes in the methodology of the Webometrics rating, – said Vice Rector for Economic and Strategic Development of KFU Marat Safiullin. – For example, the Presence indicator, which analyzed the number of web pages hosted on the university's main web domain (including pdf files) indexed by Google, is no longer included in the ranking. The role of this factor was 50%, so we relied on it and were on the 284th position in the world in terms of Presence. What has become important now is not the large number of materials, but the number of readings, citations, and references. The weights in terms of indicators have changed as follows: Visibility is now 50%, Openness is 10%, and Excellence is 40%. We have grown by 20 positions in terms of Visibility, and by 13 positions in terms of Excellence. Despite the fact that one of our essential components has decreased, we have been able to grow in the ranking, and this is good."

Nationally, Kazan Federal University has retained its presence in the top ten universities in Russia.

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