Webometrics research with its
different facets has witnessed a new dawn in the 21st century. It
has its application in various sectors of this information era. This book in
its different chapters has revealed those aspects of webometric analysis. Be it
the web impact factor analysis or the usage of different features of search
engine optimization or the analysis of hyperlinks in designing link topology or
even the website content analysis, all these are flagrant with their presence
in the five case studies. From the field of education to the field of politics
webometric study has its application. These research works have been included
in this book for representing the wide application of webometrics research in
the modern world.
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. A Brief
Introduction to Webometrics
2. Websites of
Institutes of Eminence
in India : A Webometric Study
3. Webometric Mapping
of Indian Tourism Sites
4. Websites of
Indian Political Parties from
Webometric Viewpoint
5. Webometric
Analysis of Indian Banks
6. Content
Analysis of Asian National
Library Websites
7. Conclusion
Dr. Ashok Pal is presently working as Assistant Librarian at
Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, (ICSSR recognised social science
research institute) and Guest Faculty at the Department of Library and
Information Science Jadavpur University. He obtained his PhD in Knowledge
Organization from Jadavpur University. He has won gold medals both in
Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from Jadavpur
University. He has also qualified Masters in English with first class from
University of Calcutta. He has published several articles in referred journals.
His first book is an anthology of poems named “The Chorus of the Psyche”.
After doing his B.Sc. from University of Calcutta and
MLIS from Jadavpur University, Arindam Sarkar is currently a research
scholar at the Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur
University. His area of research is Knowledge Organization, though has great
interest in scientometrics, bibliometrics and webometrics. He has published
many articles in national, international journals and conference and seminar
proceedings. His email-id is infoarindam83@gmail.com.
Sanjoy Kar did his post-graduation in Library and Information
Science in 2014 with first class first, from Vidyasagar University, West
Bengal, India. Presently he is working as Assistant Librarian at Institute of
Development Studies Kolkata (ICSSR). Besides, he is pursuing his PhD on “Open
Data”. He has two years experience of working at Indian Statistical Institute
Kolkata. His areas of interests are Open Science, Research Evaluation Metrices
(Scientometrics, Webometrics and Altmetrics), Digital Scholarship, Research
Data Management etc. He can b
