The Performance of South African and Kenyan Universities on the World Wide Web: A web link analysis

Cybermetrics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire ^a   Ocholla, Dennis N ^b  

^a University of Eastern Africa   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Kenya; Link analysis; South Africa; Universities; Webometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 45949104696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11375019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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