Webometric Analysis of Websites of Indian Universities’ with status of Potential for Excellence (UPE)
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Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl (Mizoram), India
Manoj Kumar Verma -
Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl (Mizoram), IndiaKrishna Brahma
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https://doi.org/10.17821/srels/2017/v54i6/111817Keywords:
Indian Universities with Potential for Excellence (UPE), Link Analysis, Web Impact Factor, Webometrics, WebsitesAbstract
Websites are the gateway of information for institutions and play an important role in dissemination of information. The present study is an attempt to examine and analyze the websites of Indian universities with status of potential for excellence on the basis of established webometric criteria i.e. number of web pages, link pages, domain authority, equity passing links, individual domain authority and web impact factor.
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Accepted 2018-01-04
Published 2017-01-24
