16/2/2015
The president Prof Dr Maged el
Kemary said that Kafrelsheikh University has made progress in ranking
"webometrics" and achieved the place No 8 at the level of Egyptian
universities and there are 58 governmental universities; the place No 28 among
990 Arab countries and No 31 at the level of African universities among 1321
universities and ranked No 2292 at the level of international universities.
Any Egyptian or Saudi or
Israeli or Iranian or Turkish universities did not appear among the top one
hundred world-class universities while 58 American universities tops the
ranking within the best hundred universities, China with five universities,
Canada with five universities and United Kingdom with four universities.
Otherwise, Cairo University (the best Egyptian university) gets the rank No 474
internationally; the best Arab university (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
in the rank No 244 in the world and the best African university (Cape Town
University, South Africa) in the rank 328 in the world. Harvard University,
United States of America, tops the world ranking, then followed by
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the second place.
On the other hand, national
Taiwan University tops Asian ranking and ranks no 30 in the world, while
Japanese Tokyo University falls behind to the fifth place in Asian Ranking, but
No 60 in the world unprecedented by Korean Seoul University which has No 51 in
the world. Also, Japanese Kyoto University falls behind the ninth place in
Asian ranking and No 87 in the world, while Cambridge University maintains its
place at the top of European ranking and ranks No 15 in the world, then Oxford
University in the second place.
Many institutions specialize, around the
world, ranking of university. Among the most prominent international rankings
are "Times" and "Shanghai" as well as
"Webometrics" which follows "Sabermetrics" for researchers
in Madrid subordinate to scientific information center, one of institutions
subordinate to the supreme council of researchers, the major scientific
research institutions in Spain. As well, ranking depends on four indicators for
evaluation summarizing in four criteria are: size intended to educational and
research sources in university website by 20 percent; visibility intended to
the number of internet websites which refer to university website by 50
percent; rich files through the size of databases on university website through
Google and represent 15 percent; Scholar which is obtained from Google Scholar
and represent 15 percent. Webometrics ranking is conducted every six months and
the results are announced in the end of January and July of each year.
http://www.webometrics.info/en/Africa
http://www.webometrics.info/en/Africa/Egypt