This ranking is elaborated by CybermetricsLab - a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. It summarizes the global performance of the University, provides information for candidate students and scholars, and reflects the commitment to the dissemination of scientific knowledge.
One of the aims of the initiative is to motivate both institutions and scholars to have a web presence that reflect accurately their activities. If the web performance of an institution is below the expected position according to their academic excellence, university authorities should reconsider their web policy, promoting substantial increases of the volume and quality of their electronic publications.
Ranking of the top 25 World Universities
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 University of California Berkeley
6 University of Wisconsin Madison
11 Pennsylvania State University
17 University of California Los Angeles UCLA
18 Columbia University New York
22 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
23 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
25 California Institute of Technology CalTech