Webometrics
"The science of webometrics (also cybermetrics, web metrics) tries to measure the Internet to get knowledge about number and types of hyperlinks, structure of the World Wide Web and usage patterns". (Wikipedia (2005).
Literature:
Björneborn, L. & Ingwersen, P. (2001). Perspectives of webometrics. Scientometrics, 50(1), 65-82. (Full text)
Björneborn, L. & Ingwersen, P. (2004). Toward a basic framework for webometrics.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 55(14), 1216-1227.
Thelwall, M.; Vaughan, L. & Björneborn, L. (2005). Webometrics. Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, 39, 81-135 (Preprint)
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2005). Webometrics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webometrics
Journal:
Webology, 2004 - http://www.webology.ir/
See also: Bibliometrics; Informetrics; Scientometrics.
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 18-05-2006