The Cybermetrics Lab is publishing this Webometrics Ranking of World Hospitals from a purely academic point of view and as such it should be used. The Web indicators applied do not measure at all the quality of patient's treatment and health care offered by the hospitals included. So please be aware that if you are looking for the best place to treat a health condition this ranking is not appropriate for such a search.

This ranking of hospitals in the Web is intended as a tool for monitoring and evaluating the commitment of hospitals worldwide to electronic publication and dissemination of academic information. This material should be shared not only with other colleagues (physicians, researchers, scholars) but also with managers, community leaders, users and citizens in general.

The Web indicators measure electronic contents, especially those used for scholarly communication, but also basic information about the hospital, its organization, services and personnel. The rank takes into account both the volume of information published and the impact or visibility of such contents measured by the number of external links the web pages receive from others.

Surprisingly, many hospitals even in the developed world, have a poor presence in the Web or no presence at all. This lack of valuable contents publicly available is really very concerning and it is no longer acceptable in the 21st century.

The project is still in its first phase, so only the Top 1000 institutions are ranked, but the Directory includes more than 17.000 hospitals form every corner of the world. Please, help us to improve the Ranking providing comments, suggestions or critics, but specially checking the name and URL addresses of the websites, informing of new, disappeared or incorrect entries.

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