Someone asked me about Webometrics, and I thought I would share my answer here.
For most purposes, the methodology is terrible: http://business-schools.webometrics.info/en/Methodology
If you wanted to sell a content management system to a school, then perhaps could be useful. But the quality of a website is not the best way to assess a school for most purposes. The Financial Times internationally, and leading business publications nationally, produce great rankings of business schools. Those are generally better, and use recent data rather than Google Scholar results from before 2012.
Webometrics is terrible
Posted Apr 02, 2016 22:22
Someone asked me about Webometrics, and I thought I would share my answer here.
For most purposes, the methodology is terrible: http://business-schools.webometrics.info/en/Methodology
If you wanted to sell a content management system to a school, then perhaps could be useful. But the quality of a website is not the best way to assess a school for most purposes. The Financial Times internationally, and leading business publications nationally, produce great rankings of business schools. Those are generally better, and use recent data rather than Google Scholar results from before 2012.
For most purposes, the methodology is terrible: http://business-schools.webometrics.info/en/Methodology
If you wanted to sell a content management system to a school, then perhaps could be useful. But the quality of a website is not the best way to assess a school for most purposes. The Financial Times internationally, and leading business publications nationally, produce great rankings of business schools. Those are generally better, and use recent data rather than Google Scholar results from before 2012.
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