ASU has improved its ranking positions among the Russian universities in Webometrics–2016

8 August 2016 Public Relations Department
The Cybermetrics Lab research group of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has published another edition of Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.

Altai State University has improved its positions among the Russian universities since January 2016. It has gone up from the 63rd to the 51st position.

Russian segment of the ranking comprises more than 1,350 academic organizations. ASU has left behind 1 federal and 6 national research universities included into TOP–100 Russia: Nothern (Arctic) Federal University, Kazan National Research Technological University, A.N. Tupolev Kazan National Research Technical University, Moscow Aviation Institute, Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University and National Research University of Electronic Technology.

Other Altai universities take lower places than ASU as well. Thus, V.M. Shukshin Altai State Humanities Pedagogical University was granted the 97th position of the ranking. I.I. Polzunov Altai State Technical University and Altai State Agricultural University received the 163rd and the 164th places respectively. As for Altai State Pedagogical University and Altai State Medical University, they only got the 258th and the 286th positions.

“We improve the website of Altai State University all the time. We conducted the internal optimization of the program code file structure and the effective information layout, implemented the informational system for information structuring on the request of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation,” commented head of IT Department Mikhail A. Ryazanov on the ranking results. “This year Webometrics specialists have changed the method of university web-sites estimation. In my opinion, it evaluates the quality of university websites, their structure, content and promptness of posting the information more accurately. Great attention is paid to the university science, academic articles and other materials that are put on the website. We have been able to develop our positions in this area due to effective cooperation with the university’s scientific departments, library service and so on.”

Webometrics Ranking of World Universities has been conducted since 2004 and is updated every January and July. Currently, it measures web-indicators of more than 12,000 world’s universities and is considered to be one of the most authoritative international rankings.  Webometrics estimates world’s universities on the basis of their web-sites. The purpose of the ranking is to increase universities’ and scientific and research institutes’ Web performance and to promote open publication of their research results.
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