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H-ASIA December 1, 2010 WWW Resource: Online Ranking of the Asian Studies Organizations (ORASO) [scores from Dec 2010] ************************************************************************ From: Reviews of Internet resources for Asian Studies <asia-www-monitor@anu.edu.au> The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Dec 2010, Vol. 17, No. 14 (319) -------------------------------------------------------------- 01 Dec 2010 Online Ranking of the Asian Studies Organizations (ORASO) 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 -------------------------------------------------------------- Src: The Asian Studies WWW Monitor ISSN 1329-9778 URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html URL http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/asia-www-monitor The e-journal [est. 21 Apr 1994] provides free abstracts and reviews of new/updated online resources of interest to Asian Studies. The email edition of this Journal has now over 9,200 subscribers. The AS WWW Monitor does not necessarily endorse contents, or policies of the Internet resources it deals with. - regards - Dr T. Matthew Ciolek tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au Head, Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia ph +61 (02) 6125 3124 fax: +61 (02) 62571893 also, Asia Pacific Research Online at www.ciolek.com ***************************************************************** H-ASIA publishes selected posts from the Asian Studies Monitor as a service to its members, thereby giving wider distribution to the material of this valuable resource. H-ASIA's editors do not produce the posts, nor do they participate in the ASM editorial evaluations which are offered by the ASM founder and editor, T. Matthew Ciolek. Questions regarding details of these ASM posts should be directed to Dr. Ciolek.
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