Webometrics of the Ministry of Sports and Youth and It’s Central Provinces in order to provide free access to information

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 PhD Condidate in knowledge and information science (Retrival Information). Payame noor University, Tehran, iran.

2 Faculty member, PhD Condidate in knowledge and information science. Payame noor University, Tehran, iran.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to evaluate websites of  Ministry of Sport and Youth and It’s Provincial general Directorate. This research had employed a surveying and descriptive method, which was performed on websites of  Ministry Of Sport and Youth and 31 websites of Provincial general offices. This study was performed and evaluated during March 5st to March 15th 2019, using Webometrics. The results of this study show that among Under the Ministry of Sport and Youth, Tehran(210000), Alborz(52500) and Eastern Azerbaijan(51800) websites had the highest search engine index in Google.  General Directorate websites of Tehran(69390), Qom(64297) and Kurdistan(38662) had the highest external link. General Directorate websites of Isfahan(326), Khorasan Rzavi(89) and South Khorasan(61) websites had the highest number of rich files in Google’s search engine. None of the websites in the study had any referencing index in Google Scholar’s search engine. In general, the results of this research indicates that Ministry of Sport and Youth and Provincial general Directorate do not have a decent indexing and their contribution to the webometrics of the Ministry Of Sport and Youth’s website is not befitting.

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Applied Research in Sport Management
Volume 8, Issue 2 - Serial Number 30
fall 2019
September 2019
Pages 33-40

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  • Receive Date: 17 June 2019
  • Accept Date: 07 August 2019

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