Evaluation of Iranian Medical Universities' Websites Based On Content and Technical Features Effecting On Promotion of Webometric Rank

Document Type : Research Paper

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Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran

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aim: Websites of medical universities in addition to its role as an information tool in the health scope, they have also importance in promotion of universities’ ranking in webometrics ranking of world universities and also in webometric ranking of Iranian universities and research institutions. So, continuous evaluation of these websites in different aspects, especially based on considering index of these ranSpearman correlation.
Findings: The finding of this study showed that in total, from maximum score related to evaluating criteria i.e. 102 score, Tehran university of medical sciences (by obtaining 73.66 score), Isfahan university of medical sciences (by obtaining 67.65 score) and Kashan university of medical sciences (by obtaining 66.56 score) have the most accommodation with the research checklist. Bam university of medical sciences, Dezfool university of medical sciences and Jiroft university of medical sciences (38.87, 38.85 and 37.02 respectively) have the least accommodation.
Conclusion: The present study indicates that whole websites are far from ideal situation. So, Iranian medical universities need to take advantage of the results of this study to improve the structure and content of their websites. These universities besides pay more attention to produce of rich and update information content also they must notice to technical criteria of search engines optimization in designing of their websites and by removing the technical access problems, try to eliminate the barriers of visibility.

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Academic Librarianship and Information Research
Volume 49, Issue 4
May 2016
Pages 439-476

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