Informetrics at the beginning of the 21st century—A review

J Bar-Ilan - Journal of informetrics, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper reviews developments in informetrics between 2000 and 2006. At the beginning
of the 21st century we witness considerable growth in webometrics, mapping and …

[PDF][PDF] Webometrics

M Thelwall, L Vaughan, L Björneborn - Annual review of information …, 2005 - academia.edu
Webometrics, the quantitative study of Web-related phenomena, emerged from the
realization that methods originally designed for bibliometric analysis of scientific journal …

Evaluating altmetrics

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 …

Google Scholar citations and Google Web/URL citations: A multi‐discipline exploratory analysis

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 …

A relational altmetric? Network centrality on R esearch G ate as an indicator of scientific impact

CP Hoffmann, C Lutz, M Meckel - Journal of the Association for …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Social media are becoming increasingly popular in scientific communication. A range of
platforms, such as academic social networking sites (SNS), are geared specifically towards …

Sources of Google Scholar citations outside the Science Citation Index: A comparison between four science disciplines

K Kousha, M Thelwall - Scientometrics, 2008 - akjournals.com
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 …

New measurements for search engine evaluation proposed and tested

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 …

Web indicators for research evaluation. Part 1: Citations and links to academic articles from the Web

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 …

[图书][B] Altmetrics for information professionals: Past, present and future

KJ Holmberg - 2015 - books.google.com
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 …

[图书][B] Web indicators for research evaluation: A practical guide

M Thelwall - 2016 - books.google.com
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 …