The website of the SPbPU Championship partner is among the top ten in Russia

Webometrics World University Ranking updated data. When forming the rating, 31,000 universities (including 1,071 Russian universities) from 200 countries were evaluated. The total (published) part of the ranking includes about 12,000 universities, of which 331 are Russian.

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, a partner Reliable Change Foundation and his flagship project International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", ranks 6th among Russian universities and 605th in the world.

 The Webometrics Rating (or Ranking Web) is a project of the Cybermetrics Lab, which is part of the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC), the largest Spanish research organization (analogous to the Russian Academy of Sciences). The rating is devoted to the analysis of the university's research activities on the Internet, as well as evaluating the effectiveness of the university website. The methodology takes into account the visibility of the website, as well as the citation of scientific papers by university scientists. The rating is updated every six months.

Universities in the ranking are evaluated according to several criteria: 

Transparency (Visibility, has a weight of 50%) – the number of external networks (subnets) from which links to the university's web pages come. Sources of information are Majestic and Ahrefs.

Openness (Openness, 10%) – the number of citations of the top 210 profiles (authors) of each university according to Google Scholar Profiles.

Superiority (Excellence, 40%) – the number of university papers in the period 2015-2019 among the top 10% of the most cited in each of the 26 scientific fields. The data source is SCImago.

"We are pleased that we have surpassed serious competitors in the current ranking, who are actively working to promote their web resources and publication indicators., – says Vladimir TUCHKEVICH, Deputy Director of the Department of Digital Technologies at SPbPU. – The Webometrics rating is updated every six months, and if you compare it with the work of search engines, then such a large interval for evaluating indicators significantly complicates the work and does not give the right to make mistakes or test hypotheses. As with any search engine that ranks web resources based on a query, Webometrics also provides sanctions for universities that artificially try to improve their performance. Therefore, it is very important to keep web portals up to date, provide users with the most relevant information, actively publish scientific articles and engage in constant promotion."

The expert adds that the Polytechnic University has created a system for automated deployment of web resources, and has established cooperation with the university's structural divisions, which are actively engaged in filling and promoting their web portals. In addition, together with the scientific part, active work is underway to maintain publication profiles of scientists and electronic scientific publications are constantly being updated. "This year, the rating has changed its methodology and has become more scientometric., – continues Vladimir TUCHKEVICH, – the quantitative indicator of indexed pages in the main domain was completely excluded from it, and now the main importance is the publication activity of the university, so the high position in the ranking is, first of all, the work and merit of the scientists of our university."

According to Maria VRUBLEVSKAYA, head of the Strategic Planning Department of SPbPU, one of the reasons for such high positions in the ranking is the professional approach and systematic work on the content of the website and a broader presentation of information about the university in the online space. "It should be noted that in 2013, a powerful upgrade of the English-language Polytech website was carried out, which has been operating for more than 15 years, and in 2016 and 2017, the Chinese and Spanish versions of the website were launched. This automatically makes St. Petersburg Polytechnic University more attractive to international students, and the progressive dynamics of the growth of publication activity and the representation of scientific works of the entire Polytechnic team in international databases strengthens the university's position in international rating agencies." Maria VRUBLEVSKAYA is sure.