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Web Presence and Impact Factors for Middle-Eastern Countries

Noruzi, Alireza (2006) Web Presence and Impact Factors for Middle-Eastern Countries. Online 30(2):pp. 22-28.

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Abstract

This study investigates the Web presence and Web Impact Factor (WIF) for country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) of Middle-Eastern countries, and sub-level domains (SLDs) related to education and academic institutions in these countries. Counts of links to the web sites of Middle-Eastern countries were calculated from the output of Yahoo search engine. In this study, we compute the WIF at two levels: top-level domains, and sub-level domains.
The results show that the Middle-Eastern countries, apart from Turkey, Israel and Iran, have a low web presence. On the other hand, their web sites have a low inlink WIF. Specific features of sites may affect a country’s Web Impact Factor. For linguistic reasons, Middle-Eastern web sites (Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, and Hebrew languages) may not receive and attract the attention that they deserve from the World Wide Web community.

Keywords:Webometrics, Bibliometrics, Web Impact Factors (WIF), Link analysis, Middle-East, Asia, Universities
Subjects:H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HQ. Web pages.
L. Information technology and library technology. > LC. Internet, including WWW.
ID Code:5738
Deposited By:Noruzi, Alireza
Deposited On:08 November 2006
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