Website of Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry (HUFI) level significantly increased in the latest ranking (July 2021) of Webometrics Accordingly, the website with the domain name hufi.edu.vn is ranked 57th out of 179 universities in Vietnam (up 13 places), 473rd out of 3,828 universities in Southeast Asia (up 110 places).
Webometrics Rankings have been conducted by Cybermetrics Labs (under the National Research Council of Spain) since 2004, with data annually collected in early January and July and published at the end of the month. This ranking includes more than 25,000 global higher education institutions.
The Visibility Ranking shows the influence level of the website system and online information, transparency or openness on Google Scholar, and Excellent on Scholar that measures the most cited articles.
According to the review of the Webometrics organization, the ranking indicators are regulated with the weighting that specific changes as follows:
Current evaluation method of Webometrics ranking
Source: https://webometrics.info/en/current_edition
1. Visibility: an index of the number of links to the university's website. Data from Ahref and Majestic. This is an index that assesses the impact of the university's website system (weight: 50%)
2. Transparency or Openness: an index of citations from the top 210 university scientists with Google Scholar profiles. Data from Google Scholar profiles. This is an index related to the academic spread of the university (weighted: 10%)
3. Excellence or Scholar: the index ranks the number of articles of the school in the group of 10% of the most cited articles in 27 professional fields (2015 - 2019). Data from Scimago. This is an index evaluatiing the quality of high-end research works of the university (weighted: 40%)
Ranked 57th in this ranking, HUFI's website has made a big leap in its efforts to improve its ranking in 2021 This result shows the school's efforts in developing communication, actively promoting the brand, especially in the internet environment; promoting international publication and sharing of open academic resources to promote the transfer and spread of knowledge in the community.
HUFI in the second Webometrics (Vietnam) ranking in 2021, up 13 places from the first time
Source: https://webometrics.info/en/Asia/Vietnam
In the period of 2021-2022, in order to achieve the goal of reaching the Top 50, HUFI Website Editorial Board promotes the plan of implementing and developing the website system according to webometrics ranking indicators. In addition to continuing to upgrade and improve the school's website system, the central task of this period is researching and building new portals that are appropriate with the practical situation of society and the development of the School; connecting and strongly spreading the values of information and academics to the community. Therefore, in a short time, the website system of The University of Food Industry Ho Chi Minh City has made many improvements or upgrades oriented to be friendly, easy to use and suitable for many digital platforms; to build at least 10 new information pages to serve learning, teaching and the need to exchange information online during the Covid-19 epidemic.
Mr. Thai Doan Thanh – Vice Principal stated the conclusion of continuing to build HUFI website system to participate in Webometrics ranking
In the near future, with the high determination of the school's leaders in raising the status of the University on the internet platform through the website, the Editorial Board will continue to receive the opinions of lecturers, students and experts to improve HUFI's website system to achieve the targeted ranking goals, which effectively contribute to improve the quality of education of the school.