Calculating Web impact factor for university websites of Pakistan

Abstract

Purpose – This study aims to explore the Web impact factors (WIFs) for websites of Pakistani universities. The paper discusses why revised Web impact factor (RWIF) is more meaningful than simple WIF. The study also attempts to rank the top-five websites of Pakistani universities by considering four different website ranking systems and compares the WIFs of university websites of other developing countries as well. Design/methodology/approach – This study calculates the RWIF for subject websites using two webometric tools. Open Site Explorer service (i.e. Developer Shed) and two commercial search engines, i.e. Google and Bing, were used to collect the data for examining the RWIF for subject websites. Findings – Collectively 41,960 web pages and 49,740 inlinks were found in top-ten Pakistani universities’ websites. The collective RWIF for subject websites comes to 1.185, which is at the top in comparison with other developing countries, i.e. India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Originality/value – Calculating WIF for university websites in Pakistan and presenting the comparison with other types of website ranking system is a kind of first study conducted for Pakistani library websites. The study also presents alternate search strategy for data collection to calculate RWIF for websites.

Evaluation of sustainable supply chain management performance: Dimensions and aspects

“…Identification of performance criteria is essential for every industry that has strategic issues (Bhagwat & Sharma, 2007). Tajbakhsh and Hassini (2015) focused on the current system to measure the performance of supply chains sustainability, and to integrate the diverse sustainability aspects and operation of supply chain, an outline is presented.…”

“…Therefore, identifying the aspects of the sustainable supply chain and categorizing these indicators is an imperative study (Ahi & Searcy, 2014). In Tajbakhsh and Hassini (2015), the performance assessment systems for supply chains sustainability is taken into consideration, and an outline is proposed in order to integrate the various aspects of supply chain sustainability operations.…”

“…With this trend, it is possible to find out how the sustainability aspects can be assumed in several parts of the supply chain operations (Tajbakhsh & Hassini, 2015), so this is our focus in the present paper.…”

Application of Webometrics Techniques for Measuring and Evaluating Visibility of University Library Websites in Sri Lanka

“…The WIF represents the quality of data furnished by the site together with the size of a site and is commonly characterized as the proportion between the quantity of links received and the total of site pages of a specific site (Khan & Idrees, 2015). There are three kinds of links in particular: outlinks or external links which are HTML code on the site which permits visitors to get to other sites, inlinks or backlinks which are hyperlinks on another site that direct visitors to the intended website, and self-links which are navigational links utilized as a part of a site to guide visitors to navigate from one page to another page inside the website.…”

“…The WIF (inlinks) is the result of excluding self-links for a website, thus establishing an analogous impact factor (Khan & Idrees, 2015). Therefore, in 6 this study, we calculated the WIF (inlinks) for websites in university libraries in Sri Lanka as shown in Equation 1 below:…”