As a State Legal Entity University (PTN-BH) and a pioneer in Open and Distance Higher Education (PTTJJ/Perguruan Tinggi Terbuka Jarak Jauh) in Indonesia, Universitas Terbuka (UT) has a strong commitment to continually improve the quality of Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi. UT is dedicated to enhancing the quality of its services, including information and academic presentation services through the university website (www.ut.ac.id). The motivation for presenting information related to data about the academic community is high because it is part of the ranking assessed by the Webometrics ranking system and is included in one of the assessment items of the university Key Performance Indicators (IKU/Indeks Kinerja Utama) by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology. 

All universities in Indonesia and worldwide continually compete to improve service quality in various fields, ranging from learning, research and publication of research results, community service, to the quality of presenting scientific information and academic services through university websites. One of the leading university ranking institutions used and referred to by various universities worldwide is Webometrics (https://webometrics.info/en). 

The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is a ranking result of 12,000 universities worldwide, including 3,200 universities in Indonesia. It is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab based in Madrid, Spain. The evaluation criteria used by the Cybermetrics Lab for university rankings are based on: 

Visibility, the impact of web content on external website networks (web content impact; contributing 50%),

Transparency or Openness, the number of citations for researchers or lecturers on Google Scholar (top-cited researchers, excluding the top 20 highest citation outliers; contributing 10%), 

Excellence or Scholar, the number of citations for scientific articles (top-cited papers, against the top 10% of the highest citation scores for scientific articles in various fields in the Scimago database). 

The Webometrics ranking system is published by the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain. The Webometrics ranking is updated in January and July every year. 

Based on the Webometrics ranking in January 2024, Universitas Terbuka ranks 60th in Indonesia and 4,166th in the world. On a global scale, Universitas Terbuka has risen by 90 places compared to the ranking in July 2023, where it also showed a significant increase of 669 places from January 2023 to July 2023 (Table 1). 

Edisi	Rangking Nasional	Rangking Dunia	Visibility atau Impact Rank (Global)*	Visibility atau Impact Rank (Indonesia)*	Openness Rank (Global)	National Openness Rank (Indonesia)	Excellence Rank (Global)	National Excellence Rank (Indonesia)*
Januari 2023	68	4925	2618	74	2162	30	6808	68
Juli 2023	60	4256	1692	60	2344	42	6297	69
Januari 2024	60	4166	1428	53	2192	39	6277	70

Meanwhile, in terms of web content impact rank globally and nationally, Universitas Terbuka consistently experiences an increase in rank from January 2023 to January 2024 (Table 1 and Graphs 1 & 2). moving from the 74th to the 53rd position out of 3,200 universities in Indonesia, or from the 2,618th to the 1,428th position out of 12,000 universities globally. This indicates that the visibility or impact of Universitas Terbuka web content contributes positively to various external web networks. 

As a pioneer in Open and Distance Higher Education, the Webometrics ranking becomes a reference for improving the academic service quality of Universitas Terbuka and triggering the performance of all stakeholders, especially for lecturers and researchers at Universitas Terbuka, to increase the productivity of publishing scientific papers and research results. UT will continue to develop strategies and efforts to improve the institution ranking in Webometrics. The results of this Webometrics ranking will be published on https://webometrics.info/en at the end of July 2024. 

Regarding the positive achievements, especially in the Web Impact Rank aspect, which consistently improves or increases nationally and globally, from January 2023 to July 2023, to January 2024. This achievement serves as motivation for the leaders and all stakeholders at UT to continually improve the quality of learning, research and publication, community service, and web-based academic services, leading to increased student and stakeholder satisfaction at UT.