UQ has been ranked in the top 100 in the world for academic web presence.
UQ is only one of two Australian universities to make the prestigious top 100, along with the Australian National University in Canberra.
Spanish based Cybermetrics Lab placed UQ 97th from 20,000 higher education institutions across the world in its biannual “Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.”
The ranking measures "university web presence" which includes number of webpages, quality of content, openness of institutional research repositories and also academic papers published in high impact international journals.
Rob Moffatt, Director of IT at UQ, said he was pleased with the result.
“UQ has approximately two million web pages across its sites. The main uq.edu.au website alone receives 2000 clicks per minute.
The website is a valuable resource for academics, students and researchers at UQ and for those that interact with the University.
"Combined, all UQ websites hosted centrally receive about 10 million hits a day.”
Cybermetrics Lab is a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain.
The main objective of the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is to support Open Access initiatives and promote global access to academic knowledge produced by universities worldwide.
Cybermetrics Lab has published its findings twice a year since 2004.
Further information: http://www.webometrics.info/en
Media: Jan King, j.king@uq.edu.au 0413 601 248 or Nick Manning, n.manning@uq.edu.au 0435 961 779
