Online Ranking of the Asian Studies Organizations (ORASO)

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/VLRankings.html

01 Dec 2010

ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Self-description:
"'Online Ranking of the Asian Studies Organizations: a quarterly scorecard (ORASO).' This document [est. Oct 2008 and edited by T. Matthew Ciolek, as a part of the 'Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library' (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html)] is updated four times a year (March, June, September and December). It systematically monitors and collects information about the relative online rank (i.e. the so called 'PageRank' [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank]) of the top 30 Asian Studies' institutions, organizations, specialist information resources, and research networks indexed by the Google Search Engine [www.google.com].

The PageRank of a given web address measures the site's relative importance within the world-wide archipelago of other web sites dealing with a given topic. The lower the PageRank, the greater is the deemed importance or relevance of the indexed site."

Site contents:
[Google page ranks averaged over the ten sampling periods during the last 28 months, i.e. September 2008 till December 2010 by]:
* PageRank: 1.5 - Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html] - an information resource.
* PageRank: 1.6 - Association for Asian Studies (AAS) [http://www.asian-studies.org] - an association.
* PageRank: 4.0 - Department of Asian Studies - Cornell University [http://lrc.cornell.edu/asian] - an academic body .
* PageRank: 7.8 - Department of Asian Studies - University of North Carolina [http://www.unc.edu/depts/asia] - an academic body.
* PageRank: 10.1 - Asian Studies | The WWW Virtual Library [http://vlib.org/AsianStudies] - an information resource.
* PageRank: 10.4 - Department of Asian Studies - University of British Columbia [http://www.asia.ubc.ca] - an academic body.
* PageRank: 11.3 - Asian Studies Center (ASC) - University of Pittsburgh [http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc] - an academic body.
* PageRank: 12.0 - Asian Studies Program - La Trobe University [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/asianstudies] - an academic body.
* PageRank: 14.5 - Asian Studies Center - Michigan State University [http://asia.isp.msu.edu/] - an academic body.
* PageRank: 15.2 - International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) [http://www.iias.nl] - a research institute.
* PageRank: 15.9 - Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) - University of California [http://ieas.berkeley.edu] - an academic body.
* PageRank: 16.2 - Chao Center for Asian Studies - Rice University [http://asia.rice.edu] - an academic body.
* PageRank: 16.3 - School of Asian Studies - University of Auckland [http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/asia] - an academic body.
* PageRank: 20.1 - Faculty of Asian Studies: web site 1 - Australian National University [http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies (the same site as [http://asianstudies.anu.edu.au/ , with a rank that is several notches less prominent)] - an academic body.
* PageRank: 20.9 - Asian Studies Program - University of Florida [http://www.clas.ufl.edu/asian] - an academic body.
* PageRank: 21.0 - Asian studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_studies] - an information resource.
* PageRank: 25.8 - Asian Studies - University of Oregon [http://asianstudies.uoregon.edu] - an academic body.
* PageRank: 26.0 - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) [http://nias.ku.dk] - a research institute.
* PageRank: 26.1 - Asian Studies WWW Monitor e-journal [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html] - an information resource.
* PageRank: 26.8 - Asian Studies Network Information Center (ASNIC) - University of Texas at Austin [http://asnic.utexas.edu] - an academic body.
* PageRank: 27.6 - Asian Studies - University of Western Australia [http://www.asianstudies.arts.uwa.edu.au] - an academic body.

URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/VLRankings.html

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.]

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
rating not available

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Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

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