The document discusses a Webometrics report on the performance of Turkish universities in web rankings. It finds that no Turkish university ranks in the top 500 globally and provides some explanations for this, including biases against non-English content, lack of internationalization, and duplicate domains. It suggests Turkish universities could improve their rankings by increasing the amount and quality of web content, especially research outputs, teaching materials, and content in English.

1. PERFORMANCE OF THE TURKISH UNIVERSITIES IN THE WEBOMETRICS RANKING Isidro F. Aguillo The Cybermetrics Lab. CSIC www.webometrics.info

6. World Rankings Top500 by country www.webometrics.info

10. Web Ranking Methodology Activity (50%) Virtual Referendum Size Number of webpages 20% Rich Files Number of documents 15% Scholar Number of papers 15% Visibility Number of external inlinks Impact (50%) ratio 1:1

11. Normalization Top 500 in the main World Rankings www.webometrics.info SCORE RANK WR QS CWTS ARWU HEEACT log-norm z-score

12. World universities Ranking Web 3485 149 569 6142 3486 355 4975 19161 WR July 2010

13. Web Ranking Results July 2010 www.webometrics.info

16. Scopus vs Google Scholar Commitment to Open Access

17. Size Number of web pages (Nov’10) www.webometrics.info

18. Neighborhood www.webometrics.info

19. Popularity www.webometrics.info