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| Title: | Web link analysis of interrelationship between top ten African universities and world universities |
| Authors: | Adekannbi, Janet |
| Issue Date: | Jun-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | Data
for the exploratory study on web link analysis were extracted using the
AltaVista search engine. A sample of 2395
links
was selected using proportional-to-size sampling technique while individual
link was selected using systematic
sampling.
The data were analysed using the frequency and percentage distributions. The
results of the analyses showed that
73.7%
of the links were from the Top Ten African Universities to the Top Ten World
Universities; whereas these Ten
African
Universities received only 26.3% inlinks from the Top Ten World Universities.
It was also found that most of the
outlinks
from the Top Ten African Universities were to Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (27.3%) while the highest
number
of inlinks were from Stanford
University (21.8%). The
study concludes that African universities showed more
interest
in linking to the world class universities; a trend that was not reciprocated
by the world universities. The low level of
links
received by the African universities was probably due to the fact that African
universities in general have only recently
embraced
the many features of the World Wide Web. It is recommended that African
universities should improve their
presence
on the web and incorporate ranking in their web relationship with other
universities which should significantly be
tailored to benefits that
could be received from academic activities. |
| Page(s): | 128-138 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print) |
| Source: | ALIS Vol.58(2) [June 2011]
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