Webometric Ranking of
Institutional Repositories in India
By
Mr. Samir Kumar Jalal
Asst. Librarian
Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi
Points to be Discussed
Institutional Repository (IR)
 Need of IR
 Research Questions
 Methodology
 Results
 Conclusion

Need of IR
To support Open Access Initiatives;
 To encourage the web publication;
 To archive institutional knowledge and
make it available through intranet;

Need for Webometric Ranking
To measure the global visibility and
impact of scientific repositories;
 To know the relative position of a
particular IR;
 To evaluate the present status of IR at
the state level, national level and at the
global level;

Research Questions
How does global visibility for institution’s
scholarship measure?
 Is it possible to find out the web presence of
Indian institutional repositories?
 How to develop the ranking system for Indian
institutional repositories?
 Is it possible to know highly used software in
Indian institutional repositories?

Methodology
Selection of Institutional Repositories
 Collection of URLs
 Selection of Search Engines
 Collection of Data
 Choice of Indicators for Ranking IR
 Normalization of Data
 Calculation of Rank Index

Selection of IRs

OpenDOAR: an authoritative directory of
academic open access repositories. There are
52 IRs . http://www.opendoar.org/

ROAR: 73 institutional repositories in India are
listed under Registry of Open Access
Repository. http://roar.eprints.org
Choice of Indicators
Indicator
SSymbol
Descriptions
Weights
Size
S
Total number of webpages
20%
Visibility
Rich Files
V
R
40%
15%
Scholar
Sc
Number of inlinks
Number of rich files as
measured
through
(.pdf,.doc,.ps,.ppt,)
Google scholar during 20062010 i.e. last 5 years
Number
of
Records
Duration
Ri
Total number of records till
September 2011
5%
D
It is calculated on the basis of
its existence on the web
5%
15%
Normalization of Data

Based on each indicator, all the selected IRs
are arranged in descending order of
magnitude and assigned a rank for them.
Calculation of Rank Index
Index Value may be calculated as:
20%.S + 40%.V + 15%.R + 15%.Sc +
5%.Ri + 5%.D
Where, S= Size,V= Visibility, Sc= Google
Scholar, Ri= Rich Files & D= Duration
Results
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Web presence of IRs in India
Top Ten Indian IRs based on WISER
Ranking
Top Ten Indian IRs based on Modified
WISER
Top five software used in institutional
repositories in India
Choice of Content
WISER= Web Indicators for Science Technology &
Innovation (www.wiserweb.org)
Top Ten IRs in India
Rank
Host Institute
Domain
IISc, Bangalore
eprints.iisc.ernet.in
1
University of Mysore
dspace.vidyanidhi.org.in
2
IGNOU
egyankosh.ac.in
3
NISCAIR
nopr.niscair.res.in
4
National Institute of Oceanography
drs.nio.org
5
Indian Institute of Astrophysics
prints.iiap.res.in
6
Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
eprints.cmfri.org.in
NIT, Rourkela
dspace.nitrkl.ac.in
Bibliographic Informatics Division, NIC
openmed.nic.in
Thapar University
dspace.thapar.edu
7
8
9
10
Top Five IR Software
Rank
Software
1 Dspace
2 E-Print
Digital
3
Commons
4 dLibra
5 OPUS
6 Others*
Total
Frequency
789
326
%
46.94
19.39
86
5.12
56
55
369
1681
3.33
3.27
21.95
Conclusion

To maximize the visibility of institution’s
research outputs.

The authors’ visibility increases if their
research outputs are available through open
access institutional repositories.

Institutional visibility increases resulting
into an increase in world rank of the
institutes.

IR may be at global level, institutional level
and departmental level.
Thank you