Global Visibility and Web Impact of Leading Universities of SAARC Nations

In the present time, the World Wide Web (WWW) is one of the main platforms for every forum who wants to be recognized on in the ‘factual world’. At the academic level, universities have to play significant part for communicating scientific and cultural achievements. Publication by scholars of the institutions on the internet I snot only a tool for scholarly communication but it is also a way to reach larger audiences and thus represents the performance of the institutions globally. Thus, there have been numerous endeavours to develop the web indicators that can eventually lead to build a university’s rankings (Aguillo, Ortega & Fernandez, 2008). In this milieu, the Web Ranking of Universities originally aims at promoting Web publications. The Webometrics ranking is not only centralized towards scholarly output but also in other indicators which may reflect better global quality of scholars and presence of research institutions worldwide. The present study made an attempt to explore the top universities of SAARC nations in order to find out their performance, web-presence and impact. It has been observed from the study that Indian universities are performing better than other SAARC nation universities in terms of average world rank, continental rank, impact rank and openness rank while as Pakistan outpace in terms of average presence rank. This indicates that Indian universities have better scholarly output though Pakistan universities are more visible on the WWW

Global Visibility and Web Impact of Leading Universities of SAARC Nations

In the present time, the World Wide Web (WWW) is one of the main platforms for every forum who wants to be recognized on in the ‘factual world’. At the academic level, universities have to play significant part for communicating scientific and cultural achievements. Publication by scholars of the institutions on the internet I snot only a tool for scholarly communication but it is also a way to reach larger audiences and thus represents the performance of the institutions globally. Thus, there have been numerous endeavours to develop the web indicators that can eventually lead to build a university’s rankings (Aguillo, Ortega & Fernandez, 2008). In this milieu, the Web Ranking of Universities originally aims at promoting Web publications. The Webometrics ranking is not only centralized towards scholarly output but also in other indicators which may reflect better global quality of scholars and presence of research institutions worldwide. The present study made an attempt to explore the top universities of SAARC nations in order to find out their performance, web-presence and impact. It has been observed from the study that Indian universities are performing better than other SAARC nation universities in terms of average world rank, continental rank, impact rank and openness rank while as Pakistan outpace in terms of average presence rank. This indicates that Indian universities have better scholarly output though Pakistan universities are more visible on the WWW

Roman Jurkowski. Sukcesy i porażki. Ziemiaństwo polskie Ziem Zabranych w wyborach do Dumy Państwowej i Rady Państwa 1906-1913

The review discusses the book “Sukcesy i porazki. Ziemianstwopolskie Ziem Zabranych w wyborach do Dumy Państwowej i Rady Panstwa 1906−1913” [Successes and Failures: Polish Landowners from the Nine Western Provinces in the Elections to the Russian State Duma and State Council in the Years 1906–1913] by Roman Jurkowski. The object of the reviewed book is the participation of Polish landowners in the elections to the Russian State Duma and the State Council. The author describes the procedure of the elections to these quasi-democratic institutions in great detail and its change as well as the rules of the run-up to the elections; Polish political groups, their agendas and activity during the elections, cooperation and confrontation of this ethnic-social group with other ethnic groups. When discussing the process of the elections in Vilnius and Kaunas guberniyas, Jurkowski pays considerable attention to the Lithuanian-Polish relations. A rather critical author’s attitude towards his analysed social-ethnic group should be noted. Jurkowski points out that landowners cared about their estate interests which hindered the understanding of the interests of other ethnic groups and that they lacked a deeper reflection of political processes taking place in the Russian Empire, etc. Although this monograph does not present any cardinally new generalisations or unexpected conclusions, it will be very important to everybody who investigates the political processes of the beginning of the 20th c. in the ethnic lands of Lithuanians, Belarusians and Ukrainians