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U.Porto ranks in the top 100 European Universities with the strongest impact on the Internet

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Filipa Brito

Porto University is the best placed university in the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, which measures the online presence of over one thousand Higher Education Institutions worldwide. Porto academia is on the 225th place on the world ranking and it is the only Portuguese University to be at the top 100 in Europe.

This ranking is released bi-annually by the Cybermetrics Lab - grupo de pesquisa do Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research institute in Europe, and its main purpose is to assess the impact of universities in cyberspace.

The criteria for selection includes such elements as education and innovation quality and quantity of the material being put out for collection, free access to publications and scientific excellence, according to U.Porto.

At a global scale, the Universities of Harvard and Stanford, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lead the Webometrics chart.

See here the Webometrics ranking.