Dr. Essam Elkordi, the President of Alexandria University declared that Alexandria University achieved progress on Webometric index in January 2019 to rank second among Egyptian Universities after Cairo University and 1126th position in the global ranking.Dr. Essam Elkordi, the President of Alexandria University declared that Alexandria University achieved progress on Webometric index in January 2019 to rank second among Egyptian Universities after Cairo University and 1126th position in the global ranking.Dr. Elkordi added that Alexandria University were in the top of list among the international universities. He pointed out that classification is released in January and July of every year. He expressed his hope to raise university ranking in the near future by providing more information about university online according to the standards of Webometric site. It is worth to note that Alexandria University achieved advanced position in this classification in 2009, 2016, 2017 and 2018.Dr. Elkordi declared that Alexandria University has recently witnessed an increase in the scientific publishing, where the medical researches represents 25% and engineering researches represents 20% of the total researches while 53.5% of the researches have an involvement from world universities through the period 2015 - 2018.The rector said that the university awarded the researchers by raising financial incentives of scientific publishing and supporting the scientific publishing in the scientific magazines indexed in Web of Science list. He added that there is strong cooperation with the Egyptian Knowledge Bank to upload some Egyptian magazines in the bank portal.
