The recently released January 2016 edition of the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities has placed UJ 7th out of 971 Arab universities.
UJ maintained first place among Jordanian universities, while advancing 258 positions internationally to the 1005th place; from among more than 11900 higher education institutions ranked worldwide.
The Webometrics ranking of world universities 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.
The Lab is devoted to the quantitative analysis of the Internet and Web contents especially those related to the processes of generation and scholarly communication of scientific knowledge. The ranking relies on four indicators: impact, presence, openness and excellence.