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    Walailak University has risen 4 places in the annual Webometric Rankings of World Universities released in July 2022 (02.2022 Beta). This accomplishment suggests an improvement in the university’s visibility and global performance in production and publications of scientific knowledge as well as other fields of expertise disseminated online.

    From 2019, Walailak University’s rankings has continuously improved in all areas. Overall, the global ranking has moved up 370 places from 2,184 in January to 1,814 in July in the same assessment year of 2022, therefore placing the university 15th nationally among 194 Thai universities, a progress by 4 places from January and 77th in Asia. As for the impact made through Visibility, this area has been the University’s top-performance indicator over the past 4 years, standing at 5,194th in 2019 before continuing its upward trend to 1,337th this year, moving up by 3,857 places. With Openness or Transparency, placed 2,433rd in January this year, the University has risen by 518 places to 1,915 in July. Reviewing the 4-year performance in Openness, the rank has been edging up by 948 places, from 2,863rd to 1,915th in 2019 and 2022 respectively. Finally, for Scholarly Excellence, despite a drop in the rankings from 2019 to 2021, from 3,469th to 3,943th the July-released ranking at 2,965th demonstrated the University’s action for improvement.

    Webometrics Rankings of World Universities has been recognized as a non-biased rankings taking into account 3 major areas as the rankings assessment criteria, including Visibility (50%), Transparency or Openness (10%) and Excellence of Scholars (40%). Visibility indicates the number of digital references accessed on external websites but leading to the university’s website (backlinks). As for Transparency or Openness, this area concerns the number of citations to academic works produced by the first 210 authors (as listed by Google Scholar) and lastly, Scholarly Excellence, this represents the number of academic publications amongst the top 10% most cited in each of the 27 fields (according to SCImago). 

   Cybermetrics Lab, one of the research groups affiliated with the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. Owing to the lab’s mission, the Webometric Rankings of World Universities derives from an emerging field of Cybermetrics – analysis of on web content associated with production and communication of academic knowledge. As a result, the rankings signify where each of the world’s universities stand in terms of its visibility on a global stage based on its digital publications of research contents in all areas. 

    Walailak University, as a Frontier Research university, supports it’s academic staff in the generation and dissemination of academic knowledge and access to it on the University’s webpages. The Walailak Webometrics Committee has been formed to monitor, strategize and improve the University’s digital scholarly presence.
 

News by Nootchanat Sukkaew 

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