An-Najah National University Ranked 1st in Palestine According to Webometrics
An-Najah National University has recently been ranked 1st Palestinian university according to Webometrics and 21st in the Arab World among 1000 universities which means that it is among top 2% in Arab World universities.
The university was also ranked 1748 among 25 thousand international universities which means that it is among top 7% in world universities.
أOn this occasion, Professor Maher Natsheh, Acting President of An-Najah held a press conference on Sunday, July 31st, 2016 to talk about An-Najah academic progress during the year.
وProf. Natsheh congratulated President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Prof. Rami Hamdallah on the prominent Webometrics ranking of An-Najah and pointed out that Webometrics is a ranking system for the world's universities based on a composite indicator that takes into account both the volume of the Web contents (number of web pages and files) and the visibility and impact of these web publications according to the number of external inlinks (site citations) they received.
Prof. Natsheh mentioned that An-Najah published more than 150 research papers during 2015 and 105 in the first half of 2016 in the fields of medicine, pharmacology and toxicology sciences, chemistry, nanomaterials, environment and energy sciences.
He explained the prominent increase made on citations published by An-Najah researchers as they were 1211 in the year 2015 and reached 1240 in the first half of 2016 compared to the only 470 ones during 2010.
He also said that the university has recently launched its new website of which content focuses on scientific research and other academic issues. He further talked about An-Najah research awards and the researchers publications in different international journals.
Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, also known as Ranking Web of Universities is published by the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) located in Madrid.
The aim of the Ranking is to improve the presence of the academic and research institutions on the Web and to promote the open access publication of scientific results. The ranking started in 2004 and is updated every January and July. Today it provides Web indicators for more than 12,000 universities worldwide.
To see the ranking results, please click on:
http://www.webometrics.info/en/aw