Description

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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. Web impact factor analysis, the usage of different features of search engine optimization, the analysis of hyperlinks in designing link topology, and website content analysis are all present 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.

About the Author

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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. 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 be contacted at sanjoy@idsk.edu.in. 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 and international journals, and conference and seminar proceedings. His email is infoarindam83@gmail.com.