1Institute of Science, Nirma University, Ahmedabad. svetal.shukla@nirmauni.ac.in
2Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University, Ahmedabad. lalitha.poluru@nirmauni.ac.in
Online published on 4 April, 2012.
The purpose of the study is to analyze web presence of Indian State Universities (173) on the World Wide Web (WWW) and also to find ways to get high web links that further help to improve presence on Web. The data was collected from Yahoo Site Explorer and Google Scholar. WISER (Web Indicators for Science, TEchnology and Innovation Research) ranking method was applied to know about the visibility and connectivity of universities on the Web. A WebCrawler Socscibot 4 was used to examine the pattern of link visibility and to create ADM (Alternative Document Model) Count Summary. Pajek, software for large network analysis was used as a graphical tool for creating inlinks topology. The study shows that some state universities have more visibility compared with their counter parts. It was also noted that the impact of maintaining institutional repositories, promotion of open access, academic researches, collaboration with other universities, online communities etc., are helpful in increasing the more visibility of the a university on the Web.
Web analysis, Webometrics, Search engines, WISER ranking, ADM count summary
