1Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.
2Department of Library and Information Science, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, W.B., India.
Describes briefly the Indian higher educational system mentioning various types of universities having their websites. Web presence of Indian universities has been discussed in general and central universities in particular. Webometric data have been collected mainly through Yahoo! search engines using special query syntax. An attempt has been made to rank central universities in India using appropriate webometric indicators. Results revealed that based on WISER ranking University of Delhi gets top rank; Sikkim University occupied the last rank among central universities in India. The study also examined the link relationship through inlinks and outlinks among central universities using personal web crawler i.e. SocSciBot 3.0. The reason for hyper-linking is traced among the universities under study. Finally, co-link matrix was formed to detect the link pattern among the central universities in India.
Webometric Analysis, University Ranking, Central University, Link Analysis, ADM and WIF
