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From: "Isidro F. Aguillo" <isidro.aguillo@CCHS.CSIC.ES>
Date: July 6, 2010 11:13:58 AM EDT
To: SIGMETRICS@listserv.utk.edu
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Ranking Web of Repositories: July 2010 Edition

Ranking Web of Repositories: July 2010 Edition

The second edition of 2010 Ranking Web of Repositories has been published the same day OR2010 started here in Madrid. The ranking is available from the following URL:

http://repositories.webometrics.info/

The main novelty is the substantial increase in the number of repositories analyzed (close to 1000). The Top 800 are ranked according to their web presence and visibility. As usual thematic repositories (CiteSeer, RePEc, Arxiv) leads the Ranking, but the French research institutes (CNRS, INRIA, SHS) using HAL are very close.  Two issues have changed from previous editions from a methodologicall point of view:, the use of Bing's engine data has been discarded due to irregularities in the figures obtained and MS Excel files has been excluded again.

At the end of July the new edition of the Rankings of universities, research centers and hospitals will be published.

Comments, suggestions and additional information are greatly appreciated.

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Isidro F. Aguillo, HonPhD
Cybermetrics Lab (3C1)
IPP-CCHS-CSIC
Albasanz, 26-28
28037 Madrid. Spain

Editor of the Rankings Web
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