Benha University advances 139 positions according to the Spanish Webometrics Classification, July 2022

Prof. Dr. Gamal Sosa, Benha University President announced that Benha University has advanced 139 positions according to the Spanish Webometrics Classification that issued in July 2022, as it ranked 1225 among more than 31 thousand universities around the world that participated in the classification. At the level of Arab World, Benha University has occupied the rank 23th among 1361 of Arabian universities.
At the level of Africa, Benha University has occupies the rank 22nd among 2090 African universities. At the local level, Benha University has occupied the rank 7th among 76 public and private universities that participated at the classification on the level of Egypt.
For his part , Prof. Dr. Nasser El Gizawy, the University Vice-president for Post Graduate Studies and Researches ' Affairs , pointed out that this classification depends on three indicators to measure the performance of universities around the world, which are the index of openness, research excellence and influence. El Gizawy also added that Benha University has ranked 1200 in the Openness Index, and ranked 843 globally, with a progression of 227 positions over the previous version in the Research Excellence Index, and also has ranked 4023 globally, with an advance of 100 positions over the previous version in the Impact Index. Prof. Dr. Nasser El Gizawy said that the number of the University reference scientific citations has reached 137.895 comparing with the previous edition which was 125,475 referring to an increase of 12,420 citations in only six months.
He also said that this progress reflects the university's keenness to continue excellence in this classification with its various edition and it came as a result for the concerted efforts of all the University's employees, including faculty members, their assistants, young researchers and administrators at various levels to achieve distinguished position for Benha University at the global, African and Arab levels.
For more details about results of Webometrics Ranking, you can visit the following websites;
https://webometrics.info/en/aw/Egypt
https://bu.edu.eg/univ_info/International_Ranks.php