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British Universities commitment to Open Access |
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We provide this table as an example of the current situation regarding open distribution of scientific results by world universities.
In the case of United Kingdom, the production of quality papers is far higher than the number of them available in repositories and thus being indexed by
Google Scholar.
UK universities are not achieving higher ranks in Webometrics as compared to other research-based rankings and this is the most likely
explanation for this behaviour.
We also want to note that this problem does not only affect to the UK but to countries all over the world because many universities are
not yet taking the Web seriously.
| Universities |
Scopus |
Scholar |
% Sco vs Sch |
| University College London |
134,950 |
8,660 |
6.42% |
| University of Cambridge |
114,339 |
8,320 |
7.28% |
| University of Oxford |
99,723 |
7,800 |
7.82% |
| Imperial College |
91,537 |
4,720 |
5.16% |
| University of Manchester |
83,024 |
3,840 |
4.63% |
| King's College London |
60,407 |
1,100 |
1.82% |
| University of Edinburgh |
57,473 |
9,920 |
17.26% |
| University of Birmingham |
56,365 |
3,900 |
6.92% |
| University of Bristol |
55,232 |
2,759 |
5.00% |
| University of Glasgow |
51,081 |
4,750 |
9.30% |
| University of Sheffield |
50,337 |
2,454 |
4.88% |
| University of Leeds |
49,674 |
3,230 |
6.50% |
| University of Liverpool |
45,992 |
1,390 |
3.02% |
| University of Southampton |
44,013 |
14,000 |
31.81% |
| University of Nottingham |
41,472 |
3,206 |
7.73% |
| Cardiff University |
39,196 |
1,274 |
3.25% |
| Newcastle University |
37,591 |
2,530 |
6.73% |
| Queen Mary University of
London |
30,715 |
1,150 |
3.74% |
| Queen's University
Belfast |
29,537 |
1,050 |
3.55% |
| University of Leicester |
26,883 |
1,850 |
6.88% |
| University of Aberdeen |
26,398 |
1,250 |
4.74% |
| Durham University |
24,159 |
2,650 |
10.97% |
| University of Sussex |
23,322 |
1,756 |
7.53% |
| University of Strathclyde |
23,269 |
1,400 |
6.02% |
| University of Warwick |
23,018 |
6,010 |
26.11% |
| University of Reading |
22,786 |
1,299 |
5.70% |
| University of Surrey |
21,563 |
2,020 |
9.37% |
| University of York |
21,554 |
2,920 |
13.55% |
| Loughborough University |
18,902 |
4,030 |
21.32% |
| University of Saint
Andrews |
17,212 |
1,490 |
8.66% |
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Scopus: Publications (1996-May 2010). An estimation of a minimum value, as no comprehensive effort has been done to compile all the entries.
Scholar: Papers, at least with a summary, including not only formally published articles but also other documents, and even hosted papers or
conference presentations of external scientists.
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