www.IndianJournals.com Members Copy, Not for Commercial Sale Downloaded From IP - 14.139.116.9 on dated 11-Apr-2012 Vol. 18, No. 2, April 2012 79 WEBOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND INDICATORS OF SELECTED INDIAN STATE UNIVERSITIES Svetal H. Shukla 1 and Lalitha Poluru 2 The purpose of the study is to analyze web presence of Indian State Universities (173) on the World Wide Web (WWW) and also to find ways to get high web links that further help to improve presence on Web. The data was collected from Yahoo Site Explorer and Google Scholar. WISER ( Web Indicators for Science, TEchnology and Innovation Research) ranking method was applied to know about the visibility and connectivity of universities on the Web. A WebCrawler Socscibot 4 was used to examine the pattern of link visibility and to create ADM (Alternative Document Model) Count Summary. Pajek, software for large network analysis was used as a graphical tool for creating inlinks topology. The study shows that some state universities have more visibility compared with their counter parts. It was also noted that the impact of maintaining institutional repositories, promotion of open access, academic researches, collaboration with other universities, online communities etc., are helpful in increasing the more visibility of the a university on the Web. KEYWORDS: Web analysis, Webometrics, Search engines, WISER ranking, ADM count summary 1 INTRODUCTION In the presdent era of globalization and with the changing paradigms, higher education support is required for meeting global needs. Internet and Web are playing a vital role in the information society with more emphasis on education and research. Webometrics is a collective name used for three types of web-based measurement research, namely, assessing link counts for academic citations, investigating the reliability and coverage of search engines and to study the change in web content or individual collections of web pages (Thelwall, 2009. Over the last decade the WIF (Web Impact Factor) has become a common measure in Webometrics (Bjoneborn and Ingwersen, 2001, 2004; Ingwersen and 1 Svetal H. Shukla is Asst. librarian at Institute of Science, Nirma University, Ahmedabad. svetal.shukla@nirmauni.ac.in 2 Lalitha Poluru is Librarian at Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University, Ahmedabad. lalitha.poluru@nirmauni.ac.in