Bibliometrics has changed out of all recognition since 1958; becoming established as a
field, being taught widely in library and information science schools, and being at the core of …

This book aims to provide students, researchers and practitioners with the theory and
methods for understanding the web as a socially constructed phenomenon that both reflects …

Academics can now use the web and the social websites to disseminate scholarly
information in a variety of different ways. Although some scholars have taken advantage of …

Among the many statistical analyses of scientific publications, bibliometrics holds a
privileged place for counting scientific papers. Bibliometrics is one of the sub-fields …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide an alternative, although complementary,
system for the evaluation of the scholarly activities of academic organizations, scholars and …

Search engines are normally used to find information or Web sites, but Webometric
investigations use them for quantitative data such as the number of pages matching a query …

Hyperlinks critically impact the online visibility of a tourism destination and the effectiveness
of information flow between tourism organizations and enterprises on the Internet. This study …

Abstract Editor's Summary The application of bibliometric and informetric approaches to
study the web, its information resources, structures and technologies, is known as …

Social network services such as Facebook provide new data for social science research
into, for example, the role of individual characteristics in friendship formation and the …

In this paper we propose relational hyperlink analysis (RHA) as a distinct approach for
empirical social science research into hyperlink networks on the World Wide Web. We …