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Science 28 April 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5773, p. 507
DOI: 10.1126/science.312.5773.507d
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Random Samples

Figure 1
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the academic world's biggest node by far in terms of Internet connectedness, according to a new ranking devised by Peter Hirst, a Boston-based science and technology consultant. Hirst took the first 300 from a ranking of 500 top universities produced annually by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and, using about a million Google searches, counted the number of Web pages linking to each university from the other 299. He came up with a new metric, the "G-factor."

Of the top 20 on the G-factor scale, the only non-U.S. institutions are Cambridge and Oxford universities and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. For more information, go to www.peterhirst.com




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