The webometric estimate of the publication activities of universities: the influence of the Belgorod declaration

Abstract

This paper gives the webometric estimate of the functioning of the universities included in the Near-Frontier Belarusan–Russian–Ukrainian University Consortium (in the context of the adoption of the Belgorod Declaration on open access to scientific knowledge and our cultural heritage) during 2008–2009 on the basis of the Spanish webometric university ranking and the potential of the Google Scholar search engine