The Technical University of Kenya was listed as one of the top ten universities in Kenya in the July 2023 webometrics university rankings. The university secured the 8th spot out of 124 universities in Kenya. TU-K was ranked 3865 out of 11,989 institutions worldwide and 173 out of 2,064 African institutions.
The "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities" is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab which aims to promote scientific research so as to improve the progress of the scientific and technological levels of a country. The webometrics rankings are based on three parameters; impact, openness (transparency) and excellence. Impact accounts for 50% of the ranking, excellence covers 40% and transparency or openness takes up 10%.
Impact refers to the number of external networks which have cited works of the institution via back links to the institution’s website. By this metric, TU-K was placed 16th in Kenya. Excellence focuses on the number of papers cited among the top 10% most cited papers in each discipline. The university was ranked 7th in Kenya on excellence. Finally, the transparency or openness ranking is based on the number of citations of public works by the top 310 researchers in an institution (excluding the top 20), based on their public profiles on Google Scholar. This parameter accounts for 10% of the Webometric Scores. In this regard, TU-K was placed 6th in Kenya, a position that was held both in the January and July 2023 rankings. The number of citations that were recorded in July were 21162, a marked increase from 14412 citations in January.
In Kenya, The University of Nairobi took the top spot in the webometrics overall ranking. Subsequently, Kenyatta University, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Egerton University and Moi University were placed in positions two, three, four and five respectively. Maseno University stood at sixth place, Strathmore University emerged seventh, Technical University of Kenya clinched position eight and Masinde Muliru University of Science and Technology and Catholic University of East Africa took positions nine and ten respectively.
The ICT Directorate, Directorate of Research and Knowledge Exchange as well as the Library and Learning Resource Service, in support of scholarly excellence, regularly train staff and students to provide support in the publication journey. The university recently launched an e-resource centre at the university Library which allows users to access online information resources at their convenience, with or without internet.
