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Arab universities on the web: a webometric study

Arab universities on the web: a webometric study Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the Web Impact Factor of Arab universities. Design/methodology/approach – The study included 99 universities representing 20 Arab countries. The advanced search facility of AltaVista was used for data collection. Two rounds of data collection were conducted to retrieve the links as well as the web presence of the included universities. Findings – Jordanian universities represent 40 per cent of the top ten universities with the revised web impact factor. However, this was not the case in terms of the universities' web presence. Results indicated a strong correlation between external links and web presence. Research limitations/implications – The variability of search engine results and the unavailability of some university web sites are limitations to the study. Originality/value – By investigating, for the first time, the Web Impact Factors of Arab universities as well as the relation to other variables such as language, the paper will provide universities with some measure of how they are viewed by the outside world. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Electronic Library Emerald Publishing

Arab universities on the web: a webometric study

The Electronic Library , Volume 26 (3): 13 – Jun 6, 2008

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 Emerald Group Publishing Limited. All rights reserved.
ISSN
0264-0473
DOI
10.1108/02640470810879518
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Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the Web Impact Factor of Arab universities. Design/methodology/approach – The study included 99 universities representing 20 Arab countries. The advanced search facility of AltaVista was used for data collection. Two rounds of data collection were conducted to retrieve the links as well as the web presence of the included universities. Findings – Jordanian universities represent 40 per cent of the top ten universities with the revised web impact factor. However, this was not the case in terms of the universities' web presence. Results indicated a strong correlation between external links and web presence. Research limitations/implications – The variability of search engine results and the unavailability of some university web sites are limitations to the study. Originality/value – By investigating, for the first time, the Web Impact Factors of Arab universities as well as the relation to other variables such as language, the paper will provide universities with some measure of how they are viewed by the outside world.

Journal

The Electronic LibraryEmerald Publishing

Published: Jun 6, 2008

Keywords: Worldwide web; Universities

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