Cairo University President Mohamed Othman Elkhosht announced that Cairo University leads the Egyptian universities in the Spanish classification (Webometrics) for the year 2023, The "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities", indicating that the new classification witnessed the development of the university`s position by 76 places compared to January last year. The ranking of Cairo University according to this classification in January 2022 was 618, and in January 2023 it became the 542nd in the world, and in 6 months it advanced 20 places from the July 2022 ranking, as it ranked 542 instead of 562 out of 30 thousand universities. .

Dr. Elkhosht said that Cairo University has also succeeded in developing at the level of the global citation rate for internationally published scientific research by 125% in the last 4 years, as the number of citations from university research according to the 2023 classification is 477,244, which is close to half a million citation equivalents worldwide.
Elkhosht stressed that Cairo University remained at the forefront of Egyptian universities in the Spanish classification, which witnessed the presence of only 4 Egyptian universities among the top 1000 universities, stressing that Cairo University succeeded in the last five years in maintaining its position at the forefront of Egyptian universities in all international rankings. The classification of 78 Egyptian universities and scientific institutions, the last of which is in the order of 30347, as the classification ranks more than 30 thousand universities and scientific institutions around the world.
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Dr. Elkhosht explained that the Spanish classification aims primarily at urging academic institutions in the world to present their scientific activities that reflect their scientific level on the Internet, and unlike most international classifications that take place once a year, this classification is published twice at the end of January and July of each year. And it depends on measuring the performance of universities through their websites within criteria that include: the efficiency and capacity of the university website - links and visibility of the university website in other sites - the presence of various files on the site - the number of research published in the best international journals, as well as references to them.
Dr. Elkhosht indicated that Cairo University always seeks to develop to keep pace with the global development, not only at the level of classifications, but also through the system in a broad and integrated manner, as the university succeeded in modernizing the system, both in terms of curricula, courses, exams and correction methods, through international academic cooperation with major universities.
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