The University of Helsinki has announced that it is ranked third in Europe on the Webometrics list, the aim of which is to encourage open web communications. The University's strengths included the transparent publication of scientific results in English on the Internet.
The University of Helsinki is a European forerunner in the development of open access to research articles. In 2010, research information will be collected comprehensively into an open publication archive. According to the evaluation, the most work remains to be done in Web visibility, which was assessed on the basis of links to other web communities.
The University of Cambridge topped the European top ten Webometrics list, followed by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich. New entries in the European top ten were Utrecht University and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The top ranks in the world go to the American universities MIT, Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley, which are also among the top five in the ranking by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The University of Helsinki is the only Finnish university among the top 200 ranked universities in the world.
Webometrics is an initiative of the Spanish research group, Cybermetrics Lab. The ranking, published since 2004, covers 16,000 higher education institutions and universities worldwide.
