Websites of Central Universities in India: A Webometric Analysis

B. Ramesh Babu; R. Jeyshankar; P. Nageswara Rao

doi:10.14429/djlit.30.4.458

B. Ramesh Babu Department of Library and Information Science University of Madras Chennai-600 005
R. Jeyshankar Department of Library and Information Science Alagappa University Karaikudi–630 003
P. Nageswara Rao Society for Electronic Transactions and Security (SETS) MGR Knowledge City CIT Campus, Taramani Chennai–600 113

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.30.4.458

Keywords: Central universities India, world wide web, webometrics, search engines, link analysis, web impact factor

Abstract

Webometrics is concerned with measuring aspects of the web: websites, web pages, parts of web pages, words in web pages, etc. This study examines 40 central universities websites in India. Investigates domain systems of the websites, analyses the number of webpages and link pages and calculates the simple web impact factor, self link web impact factor, external link web impact factor and revised web impact factor for Central universities in India and ranks the websites as per the WIF. It also develops a novel network diagram showing link structures between web nodes in webometric analysis. This study warns against taking the analogy between citation analysis and link analysis too far.

DOI: 10.14429/djlit.30.458