In July 2016 Webometric University Ranking’s third indicator (Openness) has been calculated on the basis of Institutional Google Scholar Citation profiles, but such profiles were not more than 20% of world universities (4121 universities out of 22 thousand universities). Unfortunately, all of our efforts to clarify and change the situation resulted in nothing.

This means that  the ranking of world universities in July 2016 are not representative, and considering that the fourth indicator Excellence is not a webometric indicator and ranked thereon not more than 30% of world universities (5824 universities out of 22 thousand universities), this casts serious doubt on the credibility of the whole methodology of Webometric University Ranking. For its revision there is need to get back to calculating the fourth indicator based on Google Scholar as was the case previously.  This role can be executed by reintroducing third indicator (Openness) from Institutional Google Scholar Citation profiles which distinguishes  the top ten most cited researchers of universities and thus well suited for the idea of a fourth indicator Excellence. And the third indicator (Openness) should assess as before the capacity of the OA-Repositories of the universities which is successfully done through Google Scholar (old third indicator - Rich Files).