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The Cybermetrics Lab is a research group of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) that is know for being the editor of the Rankings Web of Universities, Hospitals, Research Centers, Business-Schools and Repositories, also known as Webometrics Rankings. The Cybermetrics Lab started to design and compile web indicators since mid-nineties, editing the first CSIC electronic journal, Cybermetrics, in 1997. The Lab is located in the new facilities of the CSIC for the Humanities and Social Sciences in Madrid. The head of the Lab is Isidro F. Aguillo. Major contributions of the group includes the analysis of academic world and regional webpaces, the discovery of a digital divide between Nortnh American and European top universities and the development of new statistics for Open access Repositories.