Webometrics

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What is 'Webometrics'?

In a way webometrics is a logical extension of bibliometrics. Some things that fall into this category include: link analyses (which Google's Page Rank uses very effectively), Web log analyses (how many hits there are on a webpage and from what IP addresses), scholarly communication on the Web (who communicates with whom, who visits whose website, who links to whom), and many more examples.

There was a controversary as to whether Webometrics belongs in Library and Information Science or Social Network Analyses, but LIS has now expanded enough to let it gently fit in both places.

There have been some really cool researchers involved with Webometrics over the years. For further reading, I highly recommend this:

Mike Thelwall, Liwen Vaughan, Lennart BjÃƒÂ¶rneborn: Webometrics. In: ARIST 39, 2005 (preprint). Accessed 2004 December 22.