Webometric analysis of open access digital repository of agricultural sciences in Asia

Websites of an institution play an important role and act as a gateway of disseminating information. This study examines and analyzes the websites of 88 open accesses repositories (OARs) of agricultural sciences in Asia based on different criteria such as the number of web pages, link pages, web impact factor, and WISER indicator through Google search engine. It was found that the website of Science and Technology Development Center of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China occupied the first position with 723.98% SWIF presence amongst 88 digital agricultural repositories in Asia. But it again ranked 86th position with 221000 Web pages and 4090 in-link WebPages, and 0.018507 RWIF. The study aims at webometric evaluation of open-access digital repositories of agricultural science in Asia. Here, the impact and presence of websites of open-access digital repositories of agricultural sciences have been discussed and some suggestions have also been made to increase the presence of websites.