Year : 2018, Volume : 8, Issue : 1
First page : ( 45) Last page : ( 60)
Print ISSN : 2277-7938. Online ISSN : 2277-7946. Published online : 2018 April 1.
Article DOI : 10.5958/2277-7946.2018.00004.9

Evaluation of Library Websites of Management Institutes in India: A Webometric Analysis

Brahma Krishna^1,**, Verma Manoj Kumar^2,*

¹Research Scholar, Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram, India

²Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram, India

*(Corresponding author) email id: manojdlis@mzu.edu.in

**krishnabrahma255@gmail.com

Received:  27  February,  2018; Accepted:  16  April,  2018.

Abstract

The study evaluates websites of the top ranked management institutes in the country listed by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2017. The basis of this webometric analysis is domain authority, number of webpages, links and calculates the Web Impact Factor (WIF). The primary data were collected by survey and checklist method by using a website optimisation tool. The study explored that IIT Kharagpur has the highest domain authority (75), page authority (699) and external equity-passing links (EE-PLs) (700) whereas IIT Kanpur has the highest internal equity-passing links (IE-PLS) (6643) and total passing links (6869). Overall, with 149.30 WIF, IIT Kanpur library website ranked first, followed by IIM Kashipur with 73.66 WIF and IIT Roorkee with 71.27 WIF.

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Keywords

Webometric, National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), Management institutions, Library websites, Link analysis, Web impact factor.

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