Colombo, Peradeniya and Ruhuna top three Sri Lankan unis. according to webometrics world ranking
View(s):The webometrics ranking of world universities, based on a study conducted by a research organisation in Spain, has released its July 2021 university ranking, placing the Colombo, Peradeniya and Ruhuna universities as the three top Sri Lankan universities.
The University of Sri Jayewardenepura has been placed fourth followed by Moratuwa University.
The University of Sri Jayewardenepura has an improved web ranking from the previous position of sixth.
The Colombo (1591), Peradeniya (1757), Ruhuna (2203), Sri Jayewardenapura (2219), and Moratuwa (2393) universities were given world rankings as the top five universities in Sri Lanka.
The other ten universities in Sri Lanka ranking up to the 15th position are as follows: Kelaniya (2556), Jaffna (3464), Rajarata (3471), Wayamba (4136), Sabaragamuwa (4549), Open (4661), General Sir John Kotelawala Defence (6097), South Eastern (6443), Eastern (6770) and Uva Wellassa (6773) universities.
The Webometrics Ranking of world universities is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab , a research group belonging to Conseio Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. CSIC is among the first basic research organisations in Europe. The CSIC consisted in 2006 of 126 centres and institutes distributed throughout Spain.
CSIC is attached to the country’s Education Ministry and its main objective is to promote scientific research to improve the progress of the scientific and technological level of the country which will contribute to increase the welfare of the citizens. CSIC also plays an important role in the formation of new researchers and technicians in the different aspects of the science and the technology.
The organisation collaborates with other institutions of the Spanish R&D system (universities, autonomous governs, other public and private research organisations) and with social, economic, national or foreign agents to which contributes with its research capacity and human and material resources in the development of research projects or under the form of consultancy and scientific and technical support. CSIC was founded in 1939 from a previous body, the Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas created in 1907, under the leadership of the Spanish Nobel Prize winner Prof. Ramón y Cajal.
The laboratory is located at the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS). This centre started in 2007 and is located in Madrid.
The Cybermetrics Lab, part of the CSIC, is devoted to the quantitative analysis of the Internet and web contents specially those related to the processes of generation and scholarly communication of scientific knowledge. This is a new emerging discipline that has been called cybermetrics or webometrics.
The Cybermetrics Lab using quantitative methods has designed and applied indicators that allow us to measure the scientific activity on the web. The cybermetric indicators are useful to evaluate science and technology and they are the perfect complement to the results obtained with bibliometric methods in scientometric studies.
All rankings can be checked on the following link: https://webometrics.info/en/Asia/Sri%20Lanka%20?fbclid=IwAR1L3XaKmScW8Xur9tz3DIX8DBnSkB8FwextUqmNXw8mWwMQy490GbihBo0