Toward a basic framework for webometrics

Abstract

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. We warn against taking the analogy between citation analyses and link analyses too far.

Who reads research articles? An altmetrics analysis of Mendeley user categories

“…In the late 1990s, the web was suggested to be a medium through which the diverse impacts of scholars could be identified (Cronin, Snyder, Rosenbaum, Martinson, & Callahan, 1998). As a result of this and other observations about the potential of the web for bibliometrics (e.g., Almind & Ingwersen, 1997), the new area of webometrics emerged a sub-area of cybermetrics and informetrics for the study of web-based phenomena drawing upon bibliometric methods (Björneborn & Ingwersen, 2004). Recently, with the advent of the social web, the new area of altmetrics began.…”

A Revista Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental no Sistema Brasileiro de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação

“…A análise de revistas científicas é tradicionalmente objeto de estudos das áreas da cienciometria (DOBROV & KARENNOI, 1969;WILSON, 1999) e de disciplinas relacionadas, como a informetria (NACKE, 1979;BROOKES 1988), a bibliometria (OTLET, 1934;PRITCHARD, 1969), a cibermetria (BJÖRNEBORN & INGWERSEN, 2004) e a webometria (ALMIND & INGWERSEN, 1997). Com diferentes fontes de informação, essas disciplinas têm buscado respostas para a evolução da atividade científica quanto a conhecimentos produzidos, perfis de autores, contextos institucionais, critérios de avaliação, entre outros fatores que auxiliam na compreensão dos processos de produção cientifica e bibliográfica da revista (BJÖRNEBORN & INGWERSEN, 2004).…”

“…Com diferentes fontes de informação, essas disciplinas têm buscado respostas para a evolução da atividade científica quanto a conhecimentos produzidos, perfis de autores, contextos institucionais, critérios de avaliação, entre outros fatores que auxiliam na compreensão dos processos de produção cientifica e bibliográfica da revista (BJÖRNEBORN & INGWERSEN, 2004).…”

Usage of different Web Impact Factors for Ranking Australian Universities

“…Over the last decade the WIF has become a common measure in Webometrics (Björneborn and Ingwersen [8,9], Ingwersen and Björneborn [10]) to compare the activities of universities on the Web; WIF is the number of links pointing to a specific university's domain divided by the number of pages under this domain (Ingwersen [5]). WIFs were used recently to evaluate universities in Africa (Onyancha and Ocholla [11]).…”