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Introduction to Webometrics : Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences

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Webometrics is concerned with measuring aspects of the web : web sites, web pages, parts of web pages, words in web pages, hyperlinks, web search engine results. The importance of the web itself as a communication medium and for hosting an increasingly wide array of documents, from journal articles to holiday brochures, needs no introduction. Given this huge and easily accessible source of information, there are limitless possibilities for measuring or counting on a huge scale or on a smaller scale. This book argues that it can be useful for social scientists to measure aspects of the web and explains how this can be achieved on both a small and large scale. The book is intended for social scientists with research topics that are wholly or partly online and social scientists with offline research topics with an online reflection, even if this is not a core component. The book is also intended for library and information science students in the belief that the knowledge and techniques described will be useful for them to guide and aid other social scientists in their research. In addition, the techniques and issues are all directly relevant to library and information science research problems.

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300.72 THE i

Publisher

: Morgan & Claypool., 2009

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ix, 115 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781598299939

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300.72

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Subject(s)

Internet
Webometrics
Cybermetrics
Web
Quantitative methods (Research)
Quantitative research
Scientometrics
Bibliometrics

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