Webometrics: emergent or doomed?

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Mike Thelwall

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webometrics, the quantitative study of Web-based phenomena (defined more precisely later) was born in 1997 (Almind and Ingwersen 1997) and was driven rapidly forward by a number of pioneering researchers and investigations (Aguillo 1998; Bar-Ilan 1999; Ingwersen 1998; Rodríguez and Gairín 1997; Rousseau 1997; Smith 1999) to establish itself as apparently the largest coherent field within library and information science (Åström 2007; Zhao and Strotmann 2008). There were three main directions for early research: link impact evaluation, link relationship mapping and search engine results analysis.

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