Webometric Analysis of Institutional Repositories of Malaysian Public Universities

An institutional repository (IR) is one of the resources available in most university libraries that have attracted external publishers, search engines and social media to link, share index IR content. The traditional citation-based indicators a publication may not reflect quality led creation new such as webometrics or web metrics. This study aims analyse explore Malaysia’s public visibility, numbers an page count, PDF count URL mention. We utilised backlinks crawler engine collect raw data. A visualisation was created using force-directed graphing method interpret network webspace. revealed two research universities, Universiti Malaya (UM) Putra Malaysia (UPM), dominate visibility based on indicators. All non-research universities are at bottom rankings. shows repositories from more visible academic networks digital library sites. In contrast, need improve their by mapping universities’ IRs websites through hyperlink exchange collaboration activities between each promoting