”Nicolae Testemitanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of Moldova reconfirmed its national leader status in the Webometrics Ranking

Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of Moldova maintains its leading position among higher education institutions in the country, for the third consecutive year, according to the Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics). 

According to the Webometrics Report published at the end of July 2024, our university is ranked 263rd among universities in Central and Eastern Europe, 1127th among those on the European continent and 3665th among the more than 30 thousand institutions present online globally. 

Nicolae Testemitanu University ranks first in the country in the Excellence area, a fact that denotes the quality of studies and scientific articles published by the University's scientific and didactic staff and researchers in international journals with a high impact factor, which are in the top 10% most cited in 27 disciplines, according to 2019-2023 data (Scimago).

At the same time, in the last six months, Nicolae Testemitanu University advanced globally by 200 positions as regards the Impact (Visibility) indicator.

As for Transparency, the University ranks second nationally according to the number of citations of the authors' publications in their Google Scholar profiles. The University obtained a 21.9% increase in the number of citations in Google Scholar, from 38,953 citations (in July 2023) to 49,888 (in July 2024). The data are published on the official website of the international Webometrics "Transparent Ranking" (http://www.webometrics.info/en/transparent).

"This result proves that we have a strong and competitive scientific human potential. We further recommend that teaching and scientific-didactic staff, doctoral students and researchers create and manage their researcher profile on Google Scholar, publish in open access, including in the institutional repository, promote their works, monitor the impact of scientific productivity, but also of publication citations, track who cites their papers, participate in interdisciplinary research and build relationships with other researchers, capitalize on publication opportunities, grants and research internships, etc. All this contributes to increasing the visibility and scientific performance of the researcher, as well as to maintaining the upward trend of the University", rector Emil Ceban stated. 

It should be mentioned that Nicolae Testemitanu University ranks first nationally in the Webometrics ranking starting from July 2022. 

Launched in 2004 by the Cybermetrics Lab from Spain (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC), the Ranking Web of Universities is a ranking system for universities around the world, which aims to motivate both institutions and researchers to constantly and equidistantly promote on-line their activities in the field. The main objective of the Webometrics ranking is to promote open access to knowledge generated by higher education institutions. The best strategy to improve your ranking is to increase the quantity and quality of your web content. This is the most extensive academic ranking of higher education institutions that provides an independent, objective, free and open scientific exercise to provide reliable, multidimensional, up-to-date and useful information about the performance of universities worldwide.

 Ranking Web of Universities is published twice a year and currently analyzes 30 thousand higher education institutions from over 200 countries, according to three indicators: 

50% – Impact (Visibility) – the total number of external links that the institution's web domain receives from third parties (Ahrefs Majestic);

10% – Transparency (Openness) – the total number of citations of university researchers that are found in the top of the 310 authors' profiles, excluding the first 20 profiles (Google Scholar Profiles);

40% – Excellence – the quality of scientific articles published in international journals with a high impact factor, in the top 10% most cited in 27 disciplines, according to 2019-2023 data (Scimago).