We are improving from the previous standings - from rank 18, and now to 16 (Malaysia). While Internationally, we are improving a lot from 2302, going up to 2034. (+268)
The highest increase among Comprehensive Universities. - Adam Francis
Like I said before, although our overall ranks are moving up, if you noticed, the rank for all Presence, Impact & Openness are increasing, but for the Excellence part, we dropped slightly.
This shows that, other Universities (globally) too are improving their web contents (UNIMAS - 3704 improve to 3279), backlinks ( UNIMAS - 5256 improve to 4612) & pdf files(UNIMAS - 2124 improve to 1500) while we are doing the same. We need extra efforts to push it higher. Good news is, our pdf papers (IR) are increasing with the help from CAIS & PTjs' contributions. Thanks to the team.
But, we need more cited papers published in SCOPUS, Google Scholar & etc. That's why the excellence part is dropping from 1961 to 1967, despite the increase in Openness (but this is also being affected globally by other Universities' efforts).
We are moving somewhere through ePrints & web-page sizes, but we need to work harder to push the numbers for UNIMAS IR and also cited papers. Maybe a policy would help here.
Other notes :
Compared to other Comprehensive Universities :
UMS is dropping from 9th to 14th (International - from 1573 dropping to 1961) -388
UiTM maintain at 6th (International - from 936 improving to 881) +55
UIA is dropping from 8th to 10th (International - from 1462 dropping to 1484) -22
While others :
UTeM is dropping from 17th to 20th Ranks (International - from 2214 dropping to 2443) -229
UM is improving from 4th to 1st (International - from 646 improving to 461) +185
UPM is dropping from 1st to 4th. (International - from 420 dropping to 598) -178
Last but not least, personally, I would like to thank all PTjs Microsite's Webmasters, Academicians, CAIS & CICTS team and also Ling & Flora for their support in this round of evaluation.
I believe a lot of improvements can be made to ensure a better results for next evaluation cycles. Thank you all for the great team work.
Hope you can share this good news to the rest of webometrics committee members. :)
Information Technology Officer