Nigerian university websites: A webometric analysis

Webology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Nwagwu, Williams E ^a   Agarin, Omoverere ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Link analysis; Nigerian universities; Webometric analysis; Websites; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650269469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1735188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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