|
WORLD RANK |
UNIVERSITY |
SIZE |
VISIBILITY |
RICH FILES |
SCHOLAR |
|
1736 |
United Arab Emirates University
|
2,179 |
3,102 |
1,224 |
966
|
|
|
2269 |
Higher Colleges of Technology
|
1,738 |
2,479 |
1,501 |
4,587 |
|
|
4131 |
Zayed University
|
5,924 |
4,934 |
3,618 |
3,378 |
|
|
4190 |
American University of Sharjah
|
3,263 |
5,347 |
3,225 |
5,256 |
|
|
4641 |
University of Sharjah
|
7,122 |
5,112 |
5,479 |
2,988 |
|
|
5321 |
Dubai School of Government
|
7,310 |
4,991 |
7,982 |
3,795 |
|
|
7028 |
Petroleum Institute Abu Dhabi
|
6,728 |
9,017 |
5,689 |
4,924 |
|
|
7851 |
University of Wollongong in
Dubai |
6,411 |
7,561 |
8,971 |
9,750 |
Four indicators were
obtained from the quantitative results
provided by the main search engines as
follows:
Size (S).
Number of pages recovered from four
engines: Google, Yahoo, Live Search and
Exalead. For each engine, results are
log-normalised to 1 for the highest
value. Then for each domain, maximum and
minimum results are excluded and every
institution is assigned a rank according
to the combined sum.
Visibility (V).
The total number of unique external
links received (inlinks) by a site can
be only confidently obtained from Yahoo
Search. Results are log-normalised to 1
for the highest value and then combined
to generate the rank.
Rich Files (R).
After evaluation of their relevance to
academic and publication activities and
considering the volume of the different
file formats, the following were
selected: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Adobe
PostScript (.ps), Microsoft Word (.doc)
and Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppt). These
data were extracted using Google and
merging the results for each filetype
after log-normalising in the same way as
described before.
Scholar (Sc).
Google Scholar provides the number of
papers and citations for each academic
domain. These results from the Scholar
database represent papers, reports and
other academic items.
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