364 Russian Universities in Webometrics Ranking 2019

Cybermetrics Lab experts evaluated universities websites by content quality.  

More than 27,000 higher education centres across the world were surveyed; 12,000 were listed. Russia was represented by 364 universities, up six from 2018. The top 1,000 included ten Russian universities with Lomonosov Moscow State University placed 1st in the Russian league. MSU is followed by Saint Petersburg State University, Higher School of Economics, ITMO National Research University, National Research Tomsk State University, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Kazan Federal University and National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University.

Webometrics Ranking has been released biannually – in summer and winter – for the past 15 years by Cybometrics Lab, a research group of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) which is the country’s counterpart of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The study’s objective is to encourage higher education centres to publish research information and promote open access for students. Experts evaluated the universities by several criteria including the number of external links to the university website, the number of published webpages and rich files and highly cited papers and researchers.