The latest edition of the Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics) has been published. The web page has been discontinued, and the overall ranking can be obtained from the link below. Data on the metrics will be included later in a file available for a modest fee.
The overall rank is based on three metrics:
Visibility: number of external inlinks from different networks to main university domain, derived from Majestic (50% weighting)
Excellence: Number of top 10% cited papers in 27 disciplines in 2020-2024, derived from Scimago (40%)
Openness: Number of citations 2020-2014 of institutions with RoR identifier, derived from OpenAlex (10%).
Note that OpenAlex has replaced Google Scholar as the source of data on citations. This was because Google Scholar had been obstructing the extraction of data.
The current edition is led by Harvard, followed by Stanford, MIT, Oxford, and the University of Washington. Chinese universities have continued to improve, Peking from 23rd to 18th, Zhejiang from 59th to 44th, and Shanghai Jiao Tong from 65th to 47th.
Many American universities have slipped downwards although a few such as Michigan, Minnesota and Washington University Saint Louis have improved substantially following the switch from Google Scholar to OpenAlex. Several universities in Russia, India and Brazil have also fallen.
Source
Ranking Web of Universities (webometrics.info). July 2025 edition