<div class="gmail_quote"><p dir="ltr">[Forwarding from Isidro Aguillo. --Peter Suber]<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Dear colleague,</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Cybermetrics Lab has just published the new 2013 edition of their Ranking Web of World Universities (<a href="http://www.webometrics.info" target="_blank">http://www.webometrics.info</a>). In this new edition, the coverage has been expanded again and the number of higher education institutions ranked is over 21,200!.</p>
<p dir="ltr">North American universities still lead the tables (Harvard, Stanford and MIT are the first three). Canadian universities are also performing very well. In Europe, the British universities (Cambridge and Oxford) are in top positions; on the contrary French universities are far from their counterparts in the continent. In Latin America it is especially remarkable the large number of Brazilian universities, led by Sao Paulo, ranked among the best in the region. The Universities of Japan, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Singapore lead the Asian ranking. Korea's ones are still lagging behind their neighbors and the institutions from the Indian subcontinent are far from even the Top 500.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Cybermetrics Lab, a research group of the Spanish Public Research Council (CSIC) has been publishing the rankings twice a year (January and July) since 2004. Its objective is to motivate and reinforce the role of the university as a source and distributor of high quality web contents and to promote and support open access initiatives.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Isidro F. Aguillo, HonDr.<br>
The Cybermetrics Lab, CSIC<br>
Grupo Scimago<br>
Madrid. SPAIN</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:isidro.aguillo@csic.es" target="_blank">isidro.aguillo@csic.es</a><br>
ORCID: 0000-0001-8927-4873<br>
ResearcherID: A-7280-2008<br>
Scholar Citations: SaCSbeoAAAAJ<br>
Twitter: @isidroaguillo</p>
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