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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2006; 57(10): 1296–302 31. Thelwall M. A research and institutional sizebased model for national university web site interlinking. Journal of Documentation 2002; 58(2): 683-94 32. Jalal SK, Biswas SC, Mukhopadhyay P. Web impact factor and link analysis of selected Indian universities. Annals of Library and Information Studies 2010; 57: 109-21. / 29 124 www.mui.ac.ir Journal of Isfahan Medical School Review Article Vol 29, No 127, 3rd week, April 2011 Received: 21.11.2010 Accepted: 10.3.2011 How to Improve Webometric Ranks of Iranian Medical Universities Farzaneh Aminpour1 Abstract Background: The websites of universities by introducing the missions, faculties, departments, courses, educational levels, research and educational facilities, faculty members, students and alumni to the World Wide Web are of great importance. Nowadays webometric ranking of universities is as important as the academic ranking of universities. Webometric ranking of universities reflects the overall web performance of the universities. Analyzing the researches on Iranian academic websites shows many deficiencies in the websites of the Iranian medical universities. These problems are the main causes of low webometric ranks of Iranian medical universities in the "Ranking Web of World Universities". The current study reviews the previous studies on the academic websites of Iran and other countries and suggests several ideas for improving the websites of Iranian medical universities focusing on the structure and content according to the webometric indicators of "Ranking Web of World Universities". The suggested ideas would improve Iranian medical universities ranks in the international level and also affect the major national policies of information management. Keywords: Academic websites, Website improvement, Webometric indicators, Web ranking, Iran. 1 PhD Student of Health Information Management, Medical Education Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan and School of Management and Medical Information Science, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Corresponding Author: Farzaneh Aminpour, Email: f.aminpour@gmail.com 125 1390 #$ %&' !" /127 www.mui.ac.ir / 29