University of Baghdad ranked first in the Spanish Webometrics ranking

The University of Baghdad topped the Iraqi universities in the Spanish Webometrics ranking, ranking 40th in the Arab world and 1438th globally out of more than 12,000 universities. The University of Baghdad advanced 55 ranks, as its progress in this ranking represents among the top 12% of universities worldwide. The Spanish Webometrics ranking issued by the Spanish Scientific Research Council is based on three basic criteria: The university’s visibility with a weight of 50%: depends on the content of the university’s website and the number of external links that point to the university’s website and transparency with a weight of 10%: calculated based on the number of citations received by the most cited researchers at the university, in addition to excellence with a weight of 40%: measured by the number of research papers classified among the top 10% of the most cited papers in each of the 27 specializations of the complete database for the period 2019-2023. The University of Diyala came in second place locally and Al-Mustansiriya University came in third place. It is worth noting that the classification included analyzing data from more than 32,000 higher education institutions from more than 200 countries. The editors of the classification network are scientists working in a world-class public research institution with long experience in metrics-driven evaluation. The classification network or Webometrics is the largest academic classification of higher education institutions. Every six months, it provides an independent, objective, free and open scientific exercise to provide reliable, multidimensional, up-to-date and useful information about the performance of universities from all over the world. The primary goal of the classification network is to promote open access to the knowledge produced by universities, so the best strategy to improve the rank of universities is to increase the quantity and quality of their web content