Since 1996, hyperlinks have been studied extensively by applying existing bibliometric methods. The Web impact factor (WIF), for example, is the online counterpart of the journal impact factor. This paper reviews how this linkbased metric has been developed, enhanced and applied. Not only has the metric itself undergone improvement but also the relevant data collection techniques have been enha...

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This study investigates the effectiveness of metadata on websites. Specifically, the study investigated whether the extent of metadata use by a site influences the Web Impact Factor (WIF) of the site. The WIF is a Webometric measure of the recognition that a site has on the web. WIFs were calculated for two classes of sites: electronic journals and NZ University Web Sites. The most positive cor...

This paper describes the growth of Open Access (OA) repositories and journals as reported by monitoring initiatives such as ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories), Open DOAR (Open Directory of Open Access Repositories), DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Directory of Web Ranking of World Repositories by the Cybermetrics Laboratory in Spain and published literature. The performance o...

This paper aims at an important task of computing the webometrics university ranking and investigating if there exists a correlation between rankings provided by world prominent rankers such as QS ranking, for time period 2005–2016. However, portal provides required data recent years only, starting from 2012, which is insufficient investigation. The rest can be obtained internet archive. existi...

The Lab starts to work on metrics for evaluation of science and technology about 20 years ago, moving from bibliometrics to webometrics in mid-nineties when Internet became an important tool for scholarly communication. In these two decades the Lab members have published about two hundred papers in peer reviewed journals, participating in about 100 international scientific conferences, attendin...

this article, we define webometrics within the framework of informetric studies and bibliometrics, as belonging to library and information science, and as associated with cybermetrics as a generic subfield. We develop a consistent and detailed link typology and terminology and make explicit the distinction among different Web node levels when using the proposed conceptual framework. As a conseq...

The management of any organization web sites is flattering more captious earlier than owed to the fast growth of the population reliant on the WWW as the most important information source. An organization can spread its achievements through its web sphere as well as accordingly achieve visibility and regulate from the web population. WRES assembles the parameters from the WWW repeatedly in stre...