Toward a basic framework for webometrics

Perspectives of Webometrics

Since the mid-1990s has emerged a new research field, webometrics, investigating the nature and properties of the Web drawing on modern informetric methodologies. The article attempts to point to selected areas of webometric research that demonstrate interesting progress and space for development as well as to some currently less promising areas. Recent investigations of search engine coverage ...

Improvements of Webometrics by Using Sentiment Analysis for Better Accessibility of the Web

The paper discusses the webometric model for effective acquirement of relevant information from the web that would better separate the useful data from the useless. Our research emphasis has been placed on techniques that would better reflect the semantic content of single pages. Webometrics is purely a quantitative approach to the web, which can be enhanced by qualitative methods and thereby a...

Asian top universities in six world university ranking systems

There are a variety of ranking systems for universities throughout the different continents of the world. The majority of the world ranking systems have paid special attention toward evaluation of universities and higher education institutions at the national and international level. This paper tries to study the similarities and status of top Asian universities in the list of top 200 universit...

Webometrics and Social Web Research Methods

A new hyperbolic visualization method for displaying the results of a neural gas model: application to Webometrics