The issue of how to assess sustainability in universities has produced a growing body of
literature with meta-analyses on methods in national, regional or local settings. Yet, there is …

Bibliometrics is the study of academic publishing that uses statistics to describe publishing
trends and to highlight relationships between published works. Likened to epidemiology …

Abstract Information on the size of academic search engines and bibliographic databases
(ASEBDs) is often outdated or entirely unavailable. Hence, it is difficult to assess the scope …

This bibliometric study examines the overall research trends and productivity in the field of
virtual reality (VR) in higher education. Bibliometric data were retrieved from Scopus …

The internet has become embedded into our daily lives, no longer an esoteric phenomenon,
but instead an unremarkable way of carrying out our interactions with one another. Online …

This essential textbook provides a clear and authoritative introduction to qualitative and
quantitative methods for studying media and communication. Written by two highly …

Background Citations in peer-reviewed articles and the impact factor are generally accepted
measures of scientific impact. Web 2.0 tools such as Twitter, blogs or social bookmarking …

Abstract The online cryptomarket Silk Road has been oft-characterised as an 'eBay for
drugs' with customers drug consumers making personal use-sized purchases. Our research …

In September 2013 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its Working
Group 1 report, the first comprehensive assessment of physical climate science in six years …

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 …