Webometrics

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The science of webometrics (also cybermetrics, web metrics) tries to measure the World Wide Web to get knowledge about the number and types of hyperlinks, structure of the World Wide Web and usage patterns. According to Björneborn and Ingwersen (2004), the definition of webometrics is "the study of the quantitative aspects of the construction and use of information resources, structures and technologies on the Web drawing on bibliometric and informetric approaches." The term webometrics was first coined by Almind and Ingwersen (1997).

Similar sciences are Bibliometrics, Informetrics, Scientometrics, Virtual ethnography, Webology, and Web mining.

From 2004 the Webometrics ranking of world universities is offering information about more than 3,000 universities ranked according to indicators measuring web presence and impact.

[edit] See also

• Graph theory
• Search engine
• Network mapping

[edit] References

• Tomas C. Almind and Peter Ingwersen (1997). "Informetric analyses on the World Wide Web: Methodological approaches to 'webometrics'". Journal of Documentation 53 (4): 404-426. 

• Lennart Björneborn and Peter Ingwersen (2004). "Toward a Basic Framework for Webometrics". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 55 (14): 1216-1227. 

• Mike Thelwall, Liwen Vaughan, Lennart Björneborn (2005). 'Webometrics'. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 39, pp. 81-135.

• Alireza Noruzi (2006). The Web Impact Factor: A critical review. The Electronic Library, 24(4): 490-500.