Noruzi A. "Web presence and impact factors for Middle-Eastern countries " ONLINE 30 (2): 22-+ MAR-APR 2006

[Eugene Garfield]

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Alireza Noruzi : anouruzi at yahoo.com

Title: Web presence and impact factors for Middle-Eastern countries

Author(s): Noruzi A

Source: ONLINE 30 (2): 22-+ MAR-APR 2006

Document Type: Article    Language: English
Cited References: 13      Times Cited: 0


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.



Addresses: Noruzi A (reprint author), Univ Teheran, Dept Lib & Informat
Sci, Tehran, 14174 Iran
Univ Teheran, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, Tehran, 14174 Iran

E-mail Addresses: anouruzi at yahoo.com

Publisher: ONLINE INC, 213 DANBURY RD, WILTON, CT 06897-4007 USA
Subject Category: INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
IDS Number: 014FO

ISSN: 0146-5422

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