Web Presence and Impact Factors for Middle Eastern Countries
by Noruzi, Alireza (2006)
Abstract: This study investigates the Web presence and Web Impact Factor (WIF) for country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) of Middle Eastern countries, and sub-level domains (SLDs) related to education and academic institutions in these countries. Counts of links to the web sites of Middle Eastern countries were calculated from the output of the Yahoo search engine. In this study, we compute the WIF at two levels: top-level domains, and sub-level domains. The results show that the Middle Eastern countries, apart from Turkey, Israel, and Iran, have a low web presence. On the other hand, their web sites have a low inlink WIF. Specific features of sites may affect a country’s Web Impact Factor. For linguistic reasons, Middle Eastern web sites (Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, and Hebrew languages) may not receive and attract the attention that they deserve from the World Wide Web community.
Via e-LIS Online 30(2):pp. 22-28.

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