It was another achievement for the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C) as it secured the seventh position among the educational institutes in the Indian subcontinent in the Webometrics Ranking of world universities released by Cybermetrics Lab, a unit of the National Research Council, a public research body in Spain for July.
The institute secured the 2,258th rank among the 13,074 world universities which were included in the ranking process. A total of 3,546 universities\Institutes were ranked in the Indian subcontinent.
According to the Webometrics website, www.webometrics.info, this ranking is being published since 2004 on a regular basis using the web data as indicator of the visibility and impact of the activities of the universities, colleges and research institutions worldwide.
It says that the original aim of the ranking was to show the commitment of these organisations to the electronic publication, the open access to scientific results and the internalisation of their activities.
“As other rankings are more focused on world-class universities, our purpose is to offer an extended coverage, including information about the developing countries’ institutions,” the website says. The ranking is updated in January and July every year.
IIT, Mumbai; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; IIT, Kanpur; IIT, Madras; IIT, Delhi; and National Informatics Centre, Karnataka are the only institutes in Indian subcontinent ahead of NIT-C in the ranking.
“This is the result of cooperation of faculty and students. It is a feather in our cap. It is a great boost for the institute,” Dr. G.R.C. Reddy, director, NIT-C. Webometrics did not contact any institute, but conducted evaluations on their own by searching the Internet
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