ISDI – the first position in the Webometrics Ranking at the visibility indicator among Research Centres from Moldova (July 2012)

According to the international Webometrics Ranking as of July 2012 (a top of 4000 websites from a total of 7532 analyzed), the website of the Information Society Development Institute www.idsi.md holds the first position at the visibility indicator among 20 web sites of Research and Development (R&D) organizations from Moldova included in the top (8 of the websites were developed by IDSI), the 2nd position at size indicator and rich files and the 4th position at scholar indicator.

Information Society Development Institute is ranked on the 3rd position in the country top among all R&D institutions from Moldova and on position 2304 at international level. On top of the rank are the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (1st position in Moldova and position 139 internationally) and the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (2nd position in Moldova and position 1535 internationally). To view the complete ranking of research institutions from Moldova please click here.

The websites of the research organizations from Moldova have reached the top due to the implementation of the informatization action plan of the area of research and development in the Republic of Moldova, which includes, among other things, the interconnection of all research institutions in a single network – ACADEMICA, connecting all researchers to internet and to the international scientific data bases, development and maintenance of the websites of the research institutions, and also the development of the information services for the academic community.

The visibility of the research and development activity has increased from 235,285 visits in 2008 to 243,323 in 2009 and 561,100 visits in 2010, as a result of the developed information systems. The number of unique visits also increased from 83,566 in 2008 to 172,739 in 2009 and to 243.323 in 2010. External network data traffic of ACADEMICA in 2010 exceeded 28 TB, and in 2011 – 56 TB.

Universities’ top websites: also, note that Webometrics is carrying out the international ranking of universities’ web sites, being analysed 20,747 sites. According to this ranking, the following universities from Moldova are in the top: Technical University of Moldova (1st position in Moldova, and 2168 internationally), Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova (2nd position in Moldova, and 2622 internationally), State University of Moldova (3rd position in Moldova, and 2852 internationally), Free International University of Moldova (4th position in Moldova, and 5060 internationally) and State University of Medicine and Pharmacy„Nicolae Testemiţanu” (5th position in Moldova, and 5587 internationally). To view the complete ranking of universities please click here.

Webometrics is a ranking that evaluates websites of universities, research institutes, hospitals and business schools. The hierarchy is done on a semester basis, in July and January by the Superior Council of Scientific Investigations (SCSI) from Spain, an institution subordinated to the Ministry of Education of Spain and aims to encourage the improvement of quality and quantity of universities’ websites.
Webometrics uses the following indicators to determine the ranking:

• Size (S). Number of pages recovered from four engines: Google, Yahoo, Live Search and Exalead.
• Visibility (V). The total number of unique external links received (inlinks) by a site can be only confidently obtained from Yahoo Search, Live Search and Exalead.
• Rich Files (R). After evaluation of their relevance to academic and publication activities and considering the volume of the different file formats, the following were selected: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Adobe PostScript (.ps), Microsoft Word (.doc) and Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppt). These data were extracted using Google, Yahoo Search, Live Search and Exalead.
• Scholar (Sc). Google Scholar provides the number of papers and citations for each academic domain. These results from the Scholar database represent papers, reports and other academic items.

Each of the four indicators were combined according to a formula where each one has a different weight but maintaining the ratio 1:1: visibility 50 %, size 20 %, rich files 15 % and scholar 15 %.

To get more information about Webometrics Ranking follow next page: www.webometrics.info.

Source: ISDI