Iranian scientific associations’ websites in the field of Humanities: A Webometric study

This paper intends to examine the visibility extent of Iranian scientific associations’ websites in humanities using Webometrics methods. The details of 62 Iranian Scientific Associations in Humanities included in the study were gathered through the website of the Commission of Iranian Scientific Associations. The details include the name and address of these associations’ websites. In order to analyze the active websites, used Alexa, urloz and Yahoo directory in the time period of 27 April to 17 May 2012.The findings of the study showed that the website of Iranian Social Psychology Association has received the most links from other websites (918 links). The website of Iranian Curriculum Studies Association, Association of Family Studies and Persian Language and Literature Association, having received the lowest ranking in Google, are considered the weakest websites of Iranian Scientific Associations. Iranian Executive Management Association has the highest Web impact factor. This research has identified 6 core websites of Iranian Scientific Associations having more than 185.2727 links.

Webometrics, Scientific Associations, Iran, Humanities, Websites