A Webometrics Analysis of Social Science Research Institute Websites in India

The purpose of this paper is to explore websites of Social Science Research Institute by Webometrics analysis. This study is based on twenty-nine Social Science Research Institute websites which are sponsored by ICSSR. Webometrics is one of the most important aspects in web era. It is basically a quantitative study of web related phenomena and concerned with measuring aspects of web domains, websites, internal and external links, total age of web pages and social share. Further, this paper also focuses on ranking and metrics of websites of the Social Science Research Institute.This study generalizes that Centre for Policy Research (New Delhi), Gujarat Institute of Development Research (Ahmadabad) and Institute of Developing Studies Kolkata are the most popular websites among the Social Science Research Institutes in India.