Prof Hiran Amarasekera

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How to improve your web visibility and university
ranking

• Prof Hiran Amarasekera
• Leader, Jayewardenepura Digital Team
• Department of Forestry and Environment Science

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What is it in for me?

• Creating Google Scholar Profiles
• Jayewardenepura Websites
• Staff site
• How can you help to improve university ranking

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www.sjp.ac.lk

• University websites

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www.sjp.ac.lk/research
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Staff.sjp.ac.lk
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Staffweb.sjp.ac.lk (phased-out)
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Now Social Media is Mass Media
You can reach more people with just one post in
facebook than in the cover of a popular newspaper.
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Need traffic to research contents!
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Education 3.0 and 4.0

• Education 1.0 Lectures and
  memorization
• Education 2.0 - Internet-enabled learning
• open sourcing
• Education 3.0 - Knowledge-producing
  education
• Education 4.0 - Innovation-producing
  education
• Arthur M. Harkins, University of Minnesota

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E-Learning 4.0 MOOCs way
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

•  MOOCs courses are free and easily accessible
  online therefore large numbers of students can
  study high quality courses with prestigious
  universities.

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Key MOOCs providers
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Number of courses offered 
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Jayewardenepura Open Learning Platform

• http//www.sjp.ac.lk/sites/openlearn/

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Digital Library/ Scholar Bank

• http//dl.sjp.ac.lk/

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Jayewardenepura Journals

• http//journals.sjp.ac.lk/

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Jayewardenepura Alumni

• http//www.sjp.ac.lk/alumni/

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How can you contribute to improve University
Ranking

• Hiran Amarasekera
• Department of Forestry and Environment Science

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World University Ranking systems

• Webometrics Ranking http//www.webometrics.info
• THE-QS World University Rankings
  http//www.topuniversities.com/
• Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
  produced by Shanghai Jiaotong University
  http//www.shanghairanking.com

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World University Ranking systems
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Webometrics ranking

• Largest classification of higher educations
  institutions, 17,000 universities
• Conducted by Cybermetrics Lab (CSIC) in Madrid,
  Spain
• http//www.webometrics.info/
• Twice a year (January and July).

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Webometrics ranking Aims

• To improve the presence of the academic and
  research institutions on the Web
• To promote the open access publication of
  scientific results.

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Webometrics - Methodology

• Visibility (50)
• IMPACT. - external inlinks that the University
  webdomain receives from third parties
• The indicator is the product of square root of
  the number of backlinks and the number of
  domains originating those backlinks

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Webometrics - Methodology

• Activity (50)
• PRESENCE (1/3). The total number of webpages
• OPENNESS (1/3). number of rich files (pdf, doc,
  docx, ppt)
• EXCELLENCE (1/3). The academic papers published
  in high impact international journals

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World Rankings

• North America
• Stanford University (1st region world),
• MIT (2nd),
• University of California, Berkeley (3th)
• Harvard University (4th)
• Europe
• Cambridge (1st region),
• Oxford (2nd),
• ETH Zurich (3rd)

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World Rankings

• Asia/Pacific
• Tokyo (59th world),
• Australian National (60th),
• National Taiwan (96th),
• New South Wales (112th)
• Kyoto (116th)
• Beijing (120th) universities

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2015 Janurary Ranking
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USJ why only 5th?

• 2nd Openness (No of open files such as pdf)

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USJ why only 5th?

• Low Impact
• Excellence

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USJ why only 5th?

• 2nd in No of Pages (Presence)

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USJ why only 5th?

• But 7th in Impact Rank

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USJ why only 5th?

• But 6th in Excellence Rank (Published Research
  papers)

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Ranking of Sri Lankan Universities Jan 2011
WORLD RANK UNIVERSITY    SIZE  VISIBILITY  RICH FILES  SCHOLAR
             
2324 University of Moratuwa   4,165 3,743 2,463 1,665
2552 University of Ruhuna   2,384 9,411 1,965 2,345
2615 U of Peradeniya   4,592 4,847 4,423 1,059
2690 University of Colombo   2,986 1,664 4,417 2,646
4189 Open University   5,622 7,599 4,339 3,111
5830 Sabaragamuwa University   9,286 11,936 6,853 2,130
6068 University of Sri Jayewardenepura   7,287 6,752 5,823 5,068
6104 University of Kelaniya   5,502 7,624 4,751 6,898
9096 University of Jaffna   11,014 5,623 8,374 6,898
10264 Eastern University of Sri Lanka   10,102 11,944 8,352 6,898
10412 Arthur C Clarke Institute   13,493 14,606 9,831 3,501
10443 Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology   7,770 11,573 12,890 6,898
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Countries arranged by Number of Universities in
Top Ranks - 2015

• http//www.webometrics.info/en/node/54

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Strategies to improve web ranking ??
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Strategies to improve web ranking

• Publish more research to improve Excellence
  rank
• Publish great contents on the web to improve
  Impact Rank

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• Create a google profile
• Publish in better impact factor Journals
• Publish in OAI (Open Access) journals
• Start new Journals in our journals.sjp.ac.lk
• Upload your presentations, notes, papers, talks
  to digital library www.dl.sjp.ac.lk
• Start your own blog and publish contents on
  staff.sjp.ac.llk

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Prof. Hiran amarasekera
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Address
Department of Forestry and Environment
Science University of Sri Jayewardenepura Nugegoda
Sri Lanka
Japura Media
Website http//staffweb.sjp.ac.lk/?qhiran/ Ema
il hiran_at_sjp.ac.lk
Phone
011 2804685
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