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What´s the PageRank of your university and what´s yours and are they related?
PageRank is this well known Google measure of how influential a web page is.
Name of the school
|PageRank
|
-------------------------|-------------------------|
Stanford University
|9
|
University of Toronto
(I got my B.Sc. and M.Sc. there!)
|9
|
University of Waterloo
|8
|
École Polytechnique de Montréal (got my Ph.D. there)
|8
|
Simon Fraser
|8
|
UBC
|8
|
University of Calgary
|8
|
University of Alberta
|8
|
Université de Montréal (I did a post-doc there)
|8
|
Université de Sherbrooke (I taught a couple of courses there)
|8
|
Dalhousie University
|8
|
McGill University
|8
|
Concordia University
|8
|
Université Laval
|8
|
University of New Brunswick (I am an adjunct prof. there)
|7
|
Laurentian University
|7
|
Université du Québec à Montréal (my employer!)
|7
|
Acadia University (I was an assistant prof. there once)
|7
|
Université de Moncton
|7
|
Université du Québec (main site)
|7
|
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
|7
|
Université du Québec en Outaouais
|7
|
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
|7
|
I can also compare the PageRank of some researcher’s home page…
Name of the school |PageRank | -------------------------|-------------------------| Jim Gray |7 | Daniel Lemire (old URL) |6 | Peter Turney |6 | Harold Boley |6 | Owen Kaser |5 | Martin Brooks |5 | Dan Kucerovsky |5 | Will Fitzgerald |5 | Serge Dubuc |5 | Eamonn Keogh |5 | Alberto Mendelzon |5 | Guy Mineau |4 | Yuhong Yan |4 | Robert Godin (old page) |4 | Philippe Gabrini |4 | Mamadou Tadiou |4 | Guy Tremblay |2 |
Conclusions so far:
- Larger English-speaking schools get a higher PageRank. In Canada, the largest school, the University of Toronto had the top school (equal to Stanford). Somewhat smaller but very reputable schools like McGill don’t stand out.
- There seems to be no obvious correlation between the PageRank of a researcher and its university’s. This is somewhat surprising. Researchers at Laval University scored really badly for example, despite a solid PageRank for their university.