Webometrics starts to collect Data for the January edition

Data collection for the January edition (to be published in the early days of February 2014) already started, so it is time to make a few considerations about the quality and usefulness of this new edition of the Ranking Web. There are several University Rankings that intend to provide a global coverage of the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) from all over the world. Unfortunately most of them only covers a fraction (less than 5%) of the HEIs and even for these with a strong research-mission bias.