Comparative analysis of webometric measurements in thematic environments: Research Articles

  • Authors:

  • Cristina Faba-Pérez;Felipe Zapico-Alonso;Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote;Félix de Moya-Anegón

  • Affiliations:

  • Library and Information Science Faculty, University of Extremadura, Alcazaba de Badajoz (Antiguo Hospital Militar), 06071 Badajoz, Spain;Library and Information Science Faculty, University of Extremadura, Alcazaba de Badajoz (Antiguo Hospital Militar), 06071 Badajoz, Spain;Library and Information Science Faculty, University of Extremadura, Alcazaba de Badajoz (Antiguo Hospital Militar), 06071 Badajoz, Spain;Library and Information Science Faculty, University of Granada, Campus Cartuja, Colegio Máximo, 18071 Granada, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

There have been many attempts to evaluate Web spaces on the basis of the information that they provide, their form or functionality, or even the importance given to each of them by the Web itself. The indicators that have been developed for this purpose fall into two groups: those based on the study of a Web space's formal characteristics, and those related to its link structure. In this study we examine most of the webometric indicators that have been proposed in the literature together with others of our own design by applying them to a set of thematically related Web spaces and analyzing the relationships between the different indicators. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.