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Webometrics and the SOEIS The situation in webometrics appears to be quite different because of the relative minor importance of the aging effects on the rather restricted observation time period of the web resources. In this way, we have done a first exploration of webometrics, which is described in the subsequent sections. In these webometric case studies, our data from the web were processed by two different statistical methods. hyperion.math.upatras.gr /webometrics   (5481 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Webometrics, Bibliometrics and Informetrics Being a global document network initially developed for scholarly use (Berners-Lee & Cailliau, 1990) and now inhabited by a diversity of users, the Web constitutes an obvious research area for bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics. Webometrics and cybermetrics are currently the two most widely adopted terms in Information Science, often used as synonyms. The principal drawback from a webometric perspective is that log files typically cover one site/or all sites owned by the same server and are often restricted access and so are generally not a good data source for studying use of other people’s web sites. www.db.dk /lb/2003preprint_ARIST.doc   (20201 words)

[Air-l] Call for papers - quantitative studies of the web for JASIST. CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************** JASIST Special Issue on Webometrics *********************************** Submission deadline June 30, 2003 The next Special Topics Issue of Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) is scheduled to come out in late 2004 on the topic of webometrics. Webometrics, the quantitative study of web phenomena, encompasses a variety of types of research, some of which date back to the early years of the Web although the widespread adoption of the term itself is relatively new. It is envisaged that future progress of webometrics will prove the Web to be one of the most valuable mainstream data sources for information science. listserv.aoir.org /pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2002-March/001549.html   (634 words)

Web Impact Factors for Iranian Universities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Terms applied to this new area of study include "webometrics" (Almind & Ingwersen, 1997), and "cybermetrics" (the title of a journal). A key to webometric studies has been the use of large-scale search engines, such as AltaVista and AlltheWeb that allow measurements to be made of the total number of pages in a web site and the total number of backlinks to the web site. A number of studies have been published, establishing the concept of webometrics (Larson, 1996; Almind & Ingwersen, 1997; Rousseau, 1997; Smith & Thelwall, 2002; Björneborn, 2004; Björneborn & Ingwersen, 2004). www.webology.ir /2005/v2n1/a11.html   (5314 words)

[Eurchap] *AoIR Workshop* Webometrics and academic scholarship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) This email is to briefly introduce the field of Webometrics to those who are not familiar with it. Webometrics uses quantitative techniques inspired by Information Science to measure aspects of the web. I see the potential contribution of Webometrics (and link analysis in particular) to science studies as (a) providing empirical data to assess hypothesised communication trends and (b) identifying patterns in the web for subsequent more qualitative analyses. mail.asis.org /pipermail/eurchap/2004-April/000085.html   (243 words)

Abstracts Since the mid-1990s has emerged a new research field, webometrics, investigating the nature and properties of the Web drawing on modern informetric methodologies. The article attempts to point to selected areas of webometric research that demonstrate interesting progress and space for development as well as to some currently less promising areas. Concluding the article, new directions of webometrics are outlined for performing knowledge discovery and issue tracking on the Web, partly based on bibliometric methodologies used in bibliographic and citation databases. itlab.dbit.dk /tapir/abstracts.htm   (3442 words)

LA INDUSTRIA DE LA INFORMACIÓN ELECTRÓNICA COMO MOTOR DE DESARROLLO EN EL SIGLO XXI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) The study is based in the emerging discipline of webometrics, which applies the techniques of bibliometrics to the study of the World Wide Web. In undertaking a webometric study, it is necessary to select a suitable Web search engine that will count the number of pages in the web space studied, and the number of pages linking to the web space. For a search engine to be used for webometric studies, particularly for calculating WIFs, it should have a large database, covering as much of the Web as possible. www.vuw.ac.nz /staff/alastair_smith/publns/austlat   (2941 words)

IRLS 589 -- Assignment 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Through this study, I was able to gain a better understanding not just of how bibliometric, mainly webometric, methods work and how they are used, but how also to critically analyze an author, a journal and specific keywords in relation to a given topic. As webometrics starts integrating more bibliometric methods, the user will be introduced to a greater community of scholarship within the information science discipline. As scholarship grows within the discipline, the recipients of the wealth of information will only then go on to conduct their own research, and be added into the database of growing knowledge that will continue to flourish and prosper through the future. rani.sir.arizona.edu /~sirls/spring03/589/tglass.html   (4034 words)

1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) The future of webometrics applying bibliometric citation and cluster analysis to the web is a developing science. One of the limitations that bibliometrics and webometrics share is the limited number of source materials. A more recent webometric study by Vaughn Hysen’s in 2002 show that progress is occurring within webometrics despite the challenges. rani.sir.arizona.edu /~sirls/spring03/589/jsharp.html   (2991 words)

Rankings of World Universities and Departments Starting from the assumption that the Web has become one of the main sources to obtain information on academic and scientific activities, these rankings are based on several "webometrics" indicators: size, visibility, popularity and number of rich files. The ranking is based on "webometrics" indicators like size, visibility, popularity and number of rich files, which aim to quantify the quality of universities' web sites. The Webometrics ranking of Latin America universities, edited by InternetLab (Observatorio de Ciencia y Tecnologia en Internet). www.socialcapitalgateway.org /eng-rankings.htm   (1245 words)

Lennart Björneborn - PhD in webometrics - Royal School of Library and Information Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) The dissertation is situated within the new research field of webometrics concerned with the study of quantitative aspects of the construction and use of information resources, structures and technologies on the Web, drawing on bibliometric and informetric approaches. Björneborn, L. and Ingwersen, P. Perspectives of webometrics. Björneborn, L. and Ingwersen, P. Toward a basic framework for webometrics. www.db.dk /lb   (1551 words)

Webology: Editorial, Volume 2, Number 1, April 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) While the basics of webometrics are adopted from bibliometrics, this field has specific characteristics and issues. Webometrics studies the quantitative aspects of the Web such as link structure, logs, Web communities and so on (Thelwall, Vaughan & Björneborn, 2005). Non-English webpages, including Iranian university websites which are often in Persian language, do not attract enough attention, and this should be considered in the development of the global Web. www.webology.ir /2005/v2n1/editorial3.html   (532 words)

E-LIS - Fundamental methodologies and tools for the employment of webometric analyses : a discussion and proposal for ... The paper Fundamental methodologies and tools for the employment of webometric analyses defines the most important rules to keep in mind before performing webometric analyses. The paper deals with the two basic elements, that constitutes the foundation for webometric analyses: the documents being analysed, and the tools that are applied for the data collection. The concepts of a citation theory and a link theory are discussed through a study of the current litterature. eprints.rclis.org /archive/00004931   (1223 words)

Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, University of Wolverhampton / Webometrics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) We are an Information Science research group developing software and methodologies to exploit Internet-based data sources for social sciences research, including link analysis, cybermetrics and webometrics. We offer PhD supervision in cybermetrics, webometrics, informetrics and general social science research that includes a significant component of internet-based quantitative methods. In terms of the UK classification system, this comes under the general heading of Library and Information Management research. cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk   (180 words)

[Air-l] Re: counting google hits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Re: "folks realize that using the "number of hits returned on google" is a hilarious bad way to prove a point -- right?" A couple of points for the debate from the webometrics research field... The research field of webometrics uses search engines quite a lot for raw data such as hit counts and link counts, and the findings indicate that whilst there are individual anomalies, on average, hit counts tend to reflect underlying real differences. This research is summarized in two recent review chapters: Bar-Ilan, J. The Use of Web Search Engines in Information Science Research. listserv.aoir.org /pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2005-March/007316.html   (263 words)

Webometrics It has already caused a stir outside of Webometrics, so will generate good publicity for the research area. We have established Iranian Webometrics Research Group (IWRG) and run the The first workshop of Webometrics Research. Kayvan is a Webometrics PhD student at the University of Tehran in Iran. webometrics.blogspot.com   (400 words)

The Web of Knowledge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) What began as a commercial product—a unique resource for scientists, scholars, and researchers in virtually every field of intellectual endeavor—has evolved into a sophisticated set of conceptual tools for understanding the dynamics of science. The concept of citation analysis today forms the basis of much of what is known variously as scientometrics, bibliometrics, informetrics, cybermetrics, and webometrics. Garfield's invention continues to have a profound impact on the way we think about and study scholarly communication. www.asis.org /Publications/bookstore/the_web_of_knowledge.html   (234 words)

Subject gateways and interfaces The Internet search engine databases, such as Alta Vista, provide data for webometric studies, comparable to the ISI citation databases used in conventional bibliometric studies. In this paper I will examine some of the literature in this emerging area of ‘webometrics’, examine some methodological problems, and examine to what extent a webometric measure, the Web Impact Factor (WIF) can be used as an evaluation tool for Web sites and domains, using South-East Asia and Australasian sites as examples. Webometric studies began to be published about three years ago. www.csu.edu.au /special/online99/proceedings99/203b.htm   (4732 words)

Google Web APIs - Project Page (english)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) This project page has been set up after our presentation at the Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften (12 July 2004). The Google APIs keys are limited to 10.000 urls per day, so its possible our programs do not work. Figure 2: Screenshot of a power law TLD distribution of 250 URLs for the query webometrics. bsd119.ib.hu-berlin.de /~ft/index_e.html   (966 words)

E-LIS - Web impact factors for Iranian Universities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) This raises the possibility that information may be ignored due to linguistic and geographic barriers, and this should be taken into account in the development of the global Web. Kousha, K., and Horri, A. The relationship between scholarly publishing and the counts of academic inlinks to Iranian university web sites: exploring academic link creation motivations. (ed.), Proceedings of International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics, March 2-5. eprints.rclis.org /archive/00004656   (862 words)

DLIST - Fundamental methodologies and tools for the employment of webometric analyses - a discussion and proposal for ... DLIST - Fundamental methodologies and tools for the employment of webometric analyses - a discussion and proposal for improving the foundation of webometrics Fugl, Liv Danman (2001) Fundamental methodologies and tools for the employment of webometric analyses - a discussion and proposal for improving the foundation of webometrics. The DLIST Archive is a service of the School of Information Resources and Library Science and Learning Technologies Center, University of Arizona. dlist.sir.arizona.edu /287   (421 words)

What the Internet says about Science: August 2005 There are two preliminary criteria to be satisfied by webometrics friendly search engines: Topics related with cybermetrics / webometrics methodology, resources and results. This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. internetlab.blogspot.com /2005_08_01_internetlab_archive.html   (260 words)

Mike Thelwall - web CV Chu, H., He, S. and Thelwall, M. Library and information science schools in Canada and USA: A Webometric perspective. Kretschmer, H. and Thelwall, M. The way from librametry to webometrics. Thelwall, M. and Vaughan, L. Webometrics: An introduction to the special issue Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. www.scit.wlv.ac.uk /~cm1993/mtpublications.html   (2430 words)

E-LIS - The empirical, explorative investigation from the fields Web Mining, Webometrics and Logfile Analysis introduces new aspects and analysis possibilities for web log data. The study develops and tests a quantitative, non-reactive measure method (log metric "Web Entry Factors"), that allows statements about the accessibility and visibility of highly frequented entry points of a web site. Cronin, Blaise: Bibliometrics and Beyond: Some thoughts on webometrics and influmetrics. eprints.rclis.org /archive/00002806/fullmetadata.html   (2656 words)

Mike Thelwall - web CV Tang, R. and Thelwall, M. Patterns of international and national Web inlinks to US university departments: A Webometric analysis of disciplinary specificity. Tehran conference on Scientometrics and Webometrics, University of Tehran, Iran. Guest editor for a Webometrics special issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. www.scit.wlv.ac.uk /~cm1993/mycv.html   (3615 words)

CiteULike: Toward a basic framework for webometrics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) In this article, we define webometrics within the framework of informetric studies and bibliometrics, as belonging to library and information science, and as associated with cybermetrics as a generic subfield. We develop a consistent and detailed link typology and terminology and make explicit the distinction among different Web node levels when using the proposed conceptual framework. As a consequence, we propose a novel diagram notation to fully appreciate and investigate link structures between Web nodes in webometric analyses. www.citeulike.org /article/93757   (148 words)

The Iranian Webometrics Research Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)   Iranian Webometrics Research Group (IWRG) is a part of Scientometrics division in the National Research Institute for Science Policy (NRISP) doing original research on quantitative and qualitative aspects of the Web. Kayvan Kousha kkoosha @ ut.ac.ir for more information about IWRG aims and how to join the group. All participants should register for the workshop through filling in the registration form (downloadable). www.koosha.tripod.com /iwrg/IWRG.htm   (203 words)

Webometrics - World Universities’ Ranking On The Web ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Webometrics - World Universities’ Ranking On The Web http://www.webometrics.info/”>Webometrics - World Universities’ Ranking On the Web - This observatory of the academic and scientific research activities and publication on the Web will be improved with the publication of a completely updated ranking of universities and research centres according to the webometric indicators of their institutional Web domains. Web site hosted by the folks who bring us Lockergnome.net and Webair. channels.lockergnome.com /search/archives/20050922_webometrics_world_universities_ranking_on_the_web.phtml   (486 words)

The Invisible Web Weblog This new idea of ranking which seems quite reasonable to me comes from Webometrics. I’ll write about the Webometrics later on and for now just invite you to have a look at the ranking here. The website introduces the whole idea of their ranking system as follow: invisibleweblog.blogspot.com   (1122 words)

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