H. Kretschmer & F. Havemann (Eds.): Proceedings of WIS 2008, Berlin Fourth International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Ninth COLLNET Meeting Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute for Library and Information Science (IBI) This is an Open Access document licensed under the Creative Commons License BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ An evaluation of B...

BACKGROUND Webometrics refers to the quantitative study of science production, application, structure and technology in the cyber environment. Impact analysis, website collaboration, and recognition of core websites are regarded as the most practical advantages of webometrics. Furthermore, webometrics is applied in ranking studies for universities and academic institutes. This serves as an inte...

The global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic requires the Timor Leste government to make a school from home policy. This policy has encouraged several universities improve quality of their distance learning services. However, it seems that not gone deep enough conduct preliminary study on each university website's readiness face this. Based previous research, website impact factor is...

university websites play an important role in disseminating educational and research information to universities. they are a vital port for accessing the universities' scientific information for researchers, faculty members, and students. the goal of this study was to compare evaluation methods such as web assessment index (wai), web quality evaluation method (webqem), and webometrics for evalu...

This article assesses whether academic reviews in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries could be systematically used for indicators of scholarly impact, uptake or educational value for scholarly books. Based on 451 Choice book reviews from 2011 across the humanities, social sciences and science, there were significant but low correlations between Choice ratings and citation and non-cit...

In this paper CITAN, the CITation ANalysis package for R statistical computing environment, is introduced. The main aim of the software is to support bibliometricians with a tool for preprocessing and cleaning bibliographic data retrieved from SciVerse Scopus and for calculating the most popular indices of scientific impact. To show the practical usability of the package, an exemplary assessmen...

The project proposes the application of HLT to an important problem such as the measurement of the academic visibility in the web, giving the basis of a quantitative evaluation of the universities departments’ commitment in the public access to their information. Web indicators (Cybermetrics) must be developed and applied to the study of the academic websites visibility, with special focus on t...

Mike Thelwall Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK. Tel. +44 1902 321470. Fax +44 1902 321478, Email: [email protected] Ruth Fairclough Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverh...

Pawe l Weroński, Julian Sienkiewicz, Georgios Paltoglou, Kevan Buckley, Mike Thelwall and Janusz A. Ho lyst ∗ Faculty of Physics, Center of Excellence for Complex Systems Research, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, PL-00-662 Warsaw, Poland. Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Technology, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, WV1 1LY Wolverhampton, United Kingdom