Rankings
Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (2009)
14th among Top 4000 Universities
The Webometrics ranking has been designed to measure the global web presence and visibility of an institution. It is based on link analysis that combines the following information about the domain name of an institution: the number of external links it received (inlinks), the number of its Web pages, the size of its online publications, and the citation count of its scholars.
While Penn State’s ranking reflects its excellent global Web presence across all colleges, research institutes, and the faculty, it is especially reflective of the Web visibility of the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST). For instance, IST hosts CiteSeer, which is the first digital library that incorporates autonomous citation indexing. CiteSeer now contains over a million articles and continues to serve as a platform of choice for scholars around the world to conduct research related to search engine, Web mining, and social networks.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
7th in Top Research Universities Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index of Information Science/Studies – 2007
The 2007 index compiled overall institutional rankings on 375 universities that offer the Ph.D. degree. The index examines faculty members who are listed on a Ph.D. program’s Web sites and the productivity of each faculty member, based on factors such as books published, journal publications, citations of journal articles, federal-grant dollars awarded, and honors and awards.
14th among Top 4000 Universities
The Webometrics ranking has been designed to measure the global web presence and visibility of an institution. It is based on link analysis that combines the following information about the domain name of an institution: the number of external links it received (inlinks), the number of its Web pages, the size of its online publications, and the citation count of its scholars.
While Penn State’s ranking reflects its excellent global Web presence across all colleges, research institutes, and the faculty, it is especially reflective of the Web visibility of the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST). For instance, IST hosts CiteSeer, which is the first digital library that incorporates autonomous citation indexing. CiteSeer now contains over a million articles and continues to serve as a platform of choice for scholars around the world to conduct research related to search engine, Web mining, and social networks.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
7th in Top Research Universities Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index of Information Science/Studies – 2007
The 2007 index compiled overall institutional rankings on 375 universities that offer the Ph.D. degree. The index examines faculty members who are listed on a Ph.D. program’s Web sites and the productivity of each faculty member, based on factors such as books published, journal publications, citations of journal articles, federal-grant dollars awarded, and honors and awards.
