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Title: K-state: highest G-Factor in the Big XII North, 39th in the world (MCMW?)
Post by: Leyton on August 03, 2007, 03:24:16 AM

http://www.universitymetrics.com/g-factor (http://www.universitymetrics.com/g-factor)

What is the G-Factor?

The G-factor International University Ranking measures the importance of universities as a function of the number of links to their websites from the websites of other leading international universities. The G-Factor is based on the following premises:

   1. Universities are in the business of creating and disseminating knowledge.
   2. Universities are prolific sources of web content.
   3. The truism that "an organization becomes its website" really is true for universities (or at least the totality of the web content of a university is more than a reflection of the total embedded knowledge of the university - it increasingly IS the the embedded knowledge of the university).
   4. "If it's not on Google is doesn't exist!" Disturbing to the few remaining stuffy academic conservatives, but a reality to the majority for whom the Web has become a seamless part of their knowledge environment. Academics and instititutions that recognize and respond to this new environment ultimately will be among its beneficiaries.
   5. Citation is the highest form of flattery in academia: measures of citation rates, while they remain controversial in the detail of how they are applied, are generally acknowledged in principle as one of the most objective measures of the importance of academic works.


The essential concept behind the G-Factor is therefore to search (using the Google Search Engine) on every leading university's website for links to the websites of other leading universities and count the total number of such links. This number is the G-Factor.

G-Factor Rank   SJTU 2005 Rank   Institution
1   5   Massachusetts Inst Tech (MIT)
...
24   36   Univ Texas - Austin
...
39   203-300   Kansas State Univ
...
46   89   Texas A&M Univ - Coll Station
...
48   35   Univ Colorado - Boulder
...
...
98   153-202   Iowa State Univ
...
121   153-202   Univ Nebraska - Lincoln
...
124   203-300   Univ Missouri - Columbia
...
133   203-300   Univ Western Ontario
...
136   101-152   State Univ New York - Stony Brook
...
142   153-202   Univ Cincinnati - Cincinnati
...
...
...
...
166   203-300   Wayne State Univ
...
177   203-300   Tulane Univ
...
180   203-300   Univ Vermont
...
190   203-300   Univ Saskatchewan
...
193   203-300   Univ Kansas - Lawrence <-- (LOL)

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Title: Re: K-state: highest G-Factor in the Big XII North, 39th in the country (MCMW?)
Post by: fatty fat fat on August 03, 2007, 03:32:58 AM

cool. here is another one to brag about
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0609.national.html

Title: Re: K-state: highest G-Factor in the Big XII North, 39th in the country (MCMW?)
Post by: Racquetball_Ninja on August 03, 2007, 02:17:30 PM

Twinkle twinkle baby... TWINKLE TWINKLE!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_XSVFXBjgtA (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_XSVFXBjgtA)



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Title: Re: K-state: highest G-Factor in the Big XII North, 39th in the country (MCMW?)
Post by: chum1 on August 03, 2007, 02:21:36 PM

I think there's another, pornographic definition of G-Factor.