Abstract

AGUILLO, Isidro F; GRANADINO, Begoña  and  LLAMAS, Germán. Posicionamiento en el web del sector académico iberoamericano. INCI [online]. 2005, vol.30, n.12, pp.735-738. ISSN 0378-1844.

A cybermetric analysis of the Latin-American university sector was carried out as part of a series of analysis related to the measurement of the web visibility and impact of R&D institutions. As in previous studies, search engines were used for data extraction but focusing on obtaining ranked lists ordered by link-based algorithms. The Google PageRank was used as a visibility indicator of the Latin-American universities. The relative position of the universities in the list of web pages with higher PageRank dominance was computed both for national and idiomatic webspaces. The results showed an important and significant web presence of university pages in all Latin American countries, although there was a wide range in relative percentage. The larger and richer countries, with a well-structured public and private university system, are better represented on the web. However, small institutions, generally of private nature, are also among the most visible in countries like Mexico, Brazil and Colombia. Thus, the Latin-American university sector has a great importance to vertebrate the web in the region. Moreover, the best positions are coincident with data obtained from bibliometric indicators. Brazilian universities have a large participation in the Portuguese web pages

Keywords : Iberoamérica ; Indicadores ; Visibilidad ; Universidades .