Third International Conference & Workshop on University Web Rankings
Mar, 04-10-2011; 00:00
Sede CCHS
Sala Menéndez Pidal 0E18
The 3rd edition of the International Conference & Workshop is a practically oriented event, with the aim of informing the Universities' end-users how to improve their performance, what is the impact of good practices and what are the advantages of long-term strategies. A ranking should be informative and useful and it is important to provide ethical guidance for a correct representation of the overall university and all its missions. Institutional Open Access repositories will be also a hot topic.
Attendance is open and free of charge.
Agenda
Morning Session (9:30)
Welcome
Prof. Luis Sanz, Director Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP, CCHS-CSIC)
Global Rankings and a Workshop about personal webpages
Isidro F. Aguillo, Ranking Web of Universities
The Cybermetrics Lab, IPP, CCHS-CSIC
Rankings & Rankers: make up versus cultural change
Jorge Serrano Cobos, Consultant academic websites MasMedios
Coffe break
Improving institutional research output dissemination... and international web ranking
Pablo de Castro, Consultant institutional repositories GrandIR
Ranking the research excellence : A new indicator in the SIR
Félix de Moya, Scimago Institutions Ranking Scimago Research Group, IPP, CCHS-CSIC
QS Stars System
Ben Sowter, QS World University Ranking QS Intelligence Unit
Afternoon session (16:30)
Meet the Experts
This session is open for previously appointed closed meetings (about 20 min. each) with the speakers for specific requests.
Organized by: The Cybermetrics Lab (IPP, CCHS-CSIC)

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