Webometrics, the quantitative study of Web-related phenomena, emerged from the realization that methods originally designed for bibliometric analysis of scientific journal …
P Sud, M Thelwall - Scientometrics, 2014 - Springer
The rise of the social web and its uptake by scholars has led to the creation of altmetrics, which are social web metrics for academic publications. These new metrics can, in theory …
K Kousha, M Thelwall - Journal of the American Society for …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We use a new data gathering method,“Web/URL citation,” Web/URL and Google Scholar to compare traditional and Web‐based citation patterns across multiple disciplines (biology …
Social media are becoming increasingly popular in scientific communication. A range of platforms, such as academic social networking sites (SNS), are geared specifically towards …
For practical reasons, bibliographic databases can only contain a subset of the scientific literature. The ISI citation databases are designed to cover the highest impact scientific …
L Vaughan - Information Processing & Management, 2004 - Elsevier
A set of measurements is proposed for evaluating Web search engine performance. Some measurements are adapted from the concepts of recall and precision, which are commonly …
M Thelwall, K Kousha - Profesional de …, 2015 - revista.profesionaldelainformacion …
El gran uso de la web por parte de muchos sectores de la sociedad ha creado el potencial para nuevos indicadores de impacto más amplios. Este artículo revisa la investigación …
The goal of any research assessment is to evaluate the value or quality of the research in comparison to other research. As quality is highly subjective and difficult to measure …
In recent years there has been an increasing demand for research evaluation within universities and other research-based organisations. In parallel, there has been an …