The University of Nairobi ranks best University in the country and East African Region in the January 2020 edition of the Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics Ranking). The latest report released on January 28, 2020 also shows that the University of Nairobi Ranks position 11 in Africa and position 1,018 in the world.
The University of Nairobi ranks best University in the country and East African Region in the January 2020 edition of the Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics Ranking). The latest report released on January 28, 2020 also shows that the University of Nairobi Ranks position 11 in Africa and position 1,018 in the world.
The Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics Ranking) evaluates web performance of about 28,000 higher education institutions worldwide. The ranking methodology investigates 4 major indicators i.e Presence, Visibility, Transparency and Excellence. The indicators are assigned a specific weight and data is sourced from different platforms like google, Scimago, Ahrefs/Majestic SEO and Google Scholar Citations. The table below shows how the ranking body evaluates performance:
| INDICATORS | MEANING | METHODOLOGY | SOURCE | WEIGHT |
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| PRESENCE | Public knowledge shared | Size (number of pages) of the main webdomain of the institution. It includes all the subdomains that share the same (central/main) webdomain | 5% | |
| VISIBILITY | Web contents Impact | Number of external networks (subnets) linking to the institution's webpages (normalized and then average value) | Ahrefs Majestic |
50% |
| TRANSPARENCY (or OPENNESS) |
Top cited researchers | Number of citations from Top 110 authors (excl. 10 outliers) See Transparent Ranking for additional info |
Google Scholar Profiles |
10% |
| EXCELLENCE (or SCHOLAR) |
Top cited papers |
Number of papers amongst the top 10% most cited in the 26 disciplines Data for the five year period: 2013-2017 |
Scimago | 35% |
The table below shows how the University on Nairobi performed in each of the 4 Indicators;
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World |
Africa |
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Presence |
155 |
3 |
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Impact |
1,127 |
8 |
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Openness |
854 |
10 |
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Excellence |
1,606 |
41 |
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