BACKGROUND Webometrics refers to the quantitative study of science production, application, structure and technology in the cyber environment. Impact analysis, website collaboration, and recognition of core websites are regarded as the most practical advantages of webometrics. Furthermore, webometrics is applied in ranking studies for universities and academic institutes. This serves as an inte...

The Case study research method was adopted to evaluate the possible chances of Bells University of Technology, Ota, Nigeria, in Cybermetric Research Group’s webometric ranking. Observation, questionnaire and webometric analysis using Google Search Engine was adopted as methods of data collection. The sampled academics comprised those that had spent at least six months as academic staff of the U...

The paper discusses the webometric model for effective acquirement of relevant information from the web that would better separate the useful data from the useless. Our research emphasis has been placed on techniques that would better reflect the semantic content of single pages. Webometrics is purely a quantitative approach to the web, which can be enhanced by qualitative methods and thereby a...

Purpose This study introduces a method based on link analysis to investigate the structure of the R&D support infrastructure associated with science parks in order to determine whether this webometric approach gives

research centers are among the most important institutes in a scientific society. using the altavista search engine and webometric methods, this research tries to find the performance and impact of the top research centers of the islamic world countries. the results reveal that from 57 countries, 40 of them did not have any research centers scored in webometric ranking and the rest of them had ...

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a webometric analysis of web sites of medical universities of Iran. This study was conducted in Sept 2012 using Majestic SEO, Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines. The number of web pages, external inlinks, rich files and the total rank for 43 universities with active exclusive web sites were calculated. Findings indicated that Tehran Uni...

In this paper we examine if hyperlink-based (webometric) indicators can be used to rank academic websites. Therefore we analyzed the interlinking structure of German university websites and compared our simple hyperlink-based ranking with official and web-independent rankings of universities. We found that link impact could not easily be seen as a prestige factor for universities.