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Revealing the online network between university and industry: the case of Turkey

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The present paper attempts to explore the relationship between the Turkish academic and industry systems by mapping the relationships under web indicators. We used the top 100 Turkish universities and the top 10 Turkish companies in 10 industrial sectors in order to observe the performance of web impact indicators. Total page count metric is obtained through Google Turkey and the pure link metrics have been gathered from Open Site Explorer. The indicators obtained both for web presence and web visibility indicated that there are significant differences between the group of academic institutions and those related to companies within the web space of Turkey. However, this current study is exploratory and should be replicated with a larger sample of both Turkish universities and companies in each sector. Likewise, a longitudinal study rather than sectional would eliminate or smooth fluctuations of web data (especially URL mentions) as a more adequate understanding of the relations between Turkish institutions, and their web impact, is reached.

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  1. Scimago Institutions Ranking. http://www.scimagoir.com. Accessed 14 March 2015.

  2. University—Industry Research Connections (UIRC). http://www.cwts.nl/UIRC2014#Our_UIC_performance_indicators. Accessed 14 March 2015.

  3. Ranking web of World Universities. http://www.webometrics.info/en/Europe/Turkey. Accessed 14 March 2015.

  4. URAP. http://www.urapcenter.org/2014/country.php?ccode=TR. Accessed 14 March 2015.

  5. Supplementary material available at: final URI to include if accepted

  6. Google Scholar. http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html#coverage. Accessed 14 March 2015.

  7. MOZ. https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/. Accessed 14 March 2015.

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  1. EC3 Research Group, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain

    Enrique Orduna-Malea

  2. Long Island University, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville, NY, 11548, USA

    Selenay Aytac

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Orduna-Malea, E., Aytac, S. Revealing the online network between university and industry: the case of Turkey. Scientometrics 105, 1849–1866 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-015-1596-4

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