This observatory of the academic and scientific research activities and publication on the Web will be improved with the publication of a completely updated ranking of universities and research centres according to the webometric indicators of their institutional web domains. This contribution to cybermetrics intend to provide not only an overview of the science and technology published on the Web but a tool for evaluation of the research. This approach takes into account the wide range of scientific activities represented in the academic websites, frequently overlooked by the bibliometric indicators. The ranking is based on a combined indicator that takes into consideration the volume of the published material on the web, and the visibility and impact of these webpages measured by the sitations (site citations) or links they received (inlinks). It is derived from the Web Impact Factor, build on the same idea as the bibliographic databases based Impact Factor of the Journal Citation Reports published by the Institute of Scientific Information, now Thomson Scientific. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
posted by Marcus Zillman |
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