We have made an experiment when preparing the new edition of the
Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (
http://www.webometrics.info/)
to calculate the number of documents in web repositories needed for
reaching certain level. We defined Premier League for the Universities
in the Top 200, World Class for the Top 500 and Regional Class when they
appear among the Top 1000.
We collected data for rich formats, including Adobe Acrobat (pdf), MS
Word (doc), MS PowerPoint (ppt) and PostScript (ps) files and Google
Scholar database.
The thresholds are as follows:
PDF DOC PPT PS SCHOLAR
PREMIER LEAGUE 19000 4000 2000 1000 3300
WORLD CLASS 7000 2000 1000 300 1200
REGIONAL CLASS 3000 500 300 50 400
These figures could be used as a reference in repository planning. All
the data refers to publicly accessible documents in the Web being
indexed by major search engines
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Isidro F. Aguillo
isidro_at_cindoc.csic.es
Ph:(+34) 91-5635482 ext. 313
Cybermetrics Lab
CINDOC-CSIC
Joaquin Costa, 22
28002 Madrid. SPAIN
http://www.webometrics.info
http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics
http://internetlab.cindoc.csic.es
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