Evaluation of selected universities library websites listed by national institutional ranking framework (nirf) during the year 2017: A webometric analysis

Abstract

The present study is carried out for analyzing the selected universities library websites ranked by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) for the year 2017. The paper investigates domain authority, a number of webpages, links and calculates the Web Impact Factor of 23 universities' library websites. Though top 25 universities were selected for the study out of which 1 university library website found an error while fetching data and 1 more university was not having library website. The study revealed that the Internal Web Impact Factor and Simple Web Impact Factor of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Rajasthan occupies at the top with 3309.52. Whereas, Jamia Millia Islamia occupies second place with 1250 IWIF and 1250.05 SWIF and the third place was occupied by Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research with 230.26 IWIF and 230.31 SWIF. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore recorded highest EWIF with 11.67.