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Centre for Addiction & Mental Health is #1 – the highest ranked Canadian hospital website. Its global ranking is 24. Canada has 5 hospitals in the top 100.
Below are the Top Ranking Web Sites in the North America (with global ranking shown after the flag). This is a statistical ranking only. Value and newness of content is not considered. Presumably the rankings reflect user popularity.
The “Ranking Web of World Hospitals” is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. This is merely a statistical exercise using the same metrics The Ranking is updated twice a year (in late January and July) and now covers almost 17000 hospitals worldwide. To calculate the composite index (World Ranking) we have combined normalized values, the ranks are showed for informative purposes. The indicators used and their weighting are described below:
The visibility is obtained from combining external inlinks and referred domains according to Majestic SEO (50%).
Google is used for obtaining the rest of the indicators: Size, Total number of web pages, excluding the rich files (20%); Rich files, The sum of the following file types: pdf, doc, docx y ppt(15%) and Scholar: The combination of the total number of papers in Google Scholar and the recent values for the 5-year period 2007-2011 (15%).
Additional commentary next week.
For more information relevant to this file go to: http://hospitals.webometrics.info/
This entry was posted on Monday, March 5th, 2012 at 8:18 pm and is filed under Longwoods Online.

