Invoked on the Web

Cronin, Blaise; Snyder, Herbert; Rosenbaum, Howard; Martinson, Anna; Callahan, Ewa

doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(1998)49:14<1319::aid-asi9>3.0.co;2-w

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“…Cybermetrics, on the other hand, is the study of electronic information on the internet, using bibliometric methods (Björneborn, 2004). In the late 1990s, the web was suggested to be a medium through which the diverse impacts of scholars could be identified (Cronin, Snyder, Rosenbaum, Martinson, & Callahan, 1998). As a result of this and other observations about the potential of the web for bibliometrics (e.g., Almind & Ingwersen, 1997), the new area of webometrics emerged a sub-area of cybermetrics and informetrics for the study of web-based phenomena drawing upon bibliometric methods (Björneborn & Ingwersen, 2004).…”

Section: Social Media and Scientific Publicationsmentioning

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Who reads research articles? An altmetrics analysis of Mendeley user categories

Mohammadi

Thelwall

Haustein

et al. 2015

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Little detailed information is known about who reads research articles and the contexts in which research articles are read. Using data about people who register in Mendeley as readers of articles, this paper explores different types of users of Clinical Medicine, Engineering and Technology, Social Science, Physics and Chemistry papers inside and outside academia. The majority of readers for all disciplines were PhD students, postgraduates and postdocs but other types of academics were also represented. In addition, many Clinical Medicine papers were read by medical professionals. The highest correlations between citations and Mendeley readership counts were found for types of users that often authored academic papers, except for associate professors in some subdisciplines. This suggests that Mendeley readership can reflect usage similar to traditional citation impact, if the data is restricted to readers who are also authors, without the delay of impact measured by citation counts. At the same time, Mendeley statistics can also reveal the hidden impact of some research papers, such as educational value for nonauthor users inside academia or the impact of research papers on practice for readers outside academia.

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Section: Social Media and Scientific Publicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who reads research articles? An altmetrics analysis of Mendeley user categories

Mohammadi

Thelwall

Haustein

et al. 2015

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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“…Given the number of links to departmental home pages, research group pages, and the home pages of individual researchers, it may be the case that one aspect of what it being measured is the informal electronic artefacts of invisible colleges. In this context the survey of Cronin, Snyder, Rosenbaum, Martinson, & Callahan (1998), that categorized types of Web pages that included professors' names gave a large variety of types and subtypes, one of these being a category for the home page of another person or organization. The existence of scholarly digital communities has not gone unnoticed (Cronin & McKim, 1996), but many of the types of communication used would not be recognized by the methodology used here.…”

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Extracting macroscopic information from Web links

Thelwall

2001

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Much has been written about the potential and pitfalls of macroscopic Web-based link analysis, yet there have been no studies that have provided clear statistical evidence that any of the proposed calculations can produce results over large areas of the Web that correlate with phenomena external to the Internet. This article attempts to provide such evidence through an evaluation of Ingwersen's (1998) proposed external Web Impact Factor (WIF) for the original use of the Web: the interlinking of academic research. In particular, it studies the case of the relationship between academic hyperlinks and research activity for universities in Britain, a country chosen for its variety of institutions and the existence of an official government rating exercise for research. After reviewing the numerous reasons why link counts may be unreliable, it demonstrates that four different WIFs do, in fact, correlate with the conventional academic research measures. The WIF delivering the greatest correlation with research rankings was the ratio of Web pages with links pointing at research-based pages to faculty numbers. The scarcity of links to electronic academic papers in the data set suggests that, in contrast to citation analysis, this WIF is measuring the reputations of universities and their scholars, rather than the quality of their publications.

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“…As Zhao & Logan (2002) point out, some studies apply, often with modifications, informetric principles and techniques to study the characteristics and link structures of the Web. Examples include studies on search engines that make use of hyperlink structure (Clever, 1999), and so-called "Webometrics" studies (Almind & Ingwersen, 1997;Cronin et al, 1998, Egghe, 2000Larson, 1996;Rousseau, 1997;Thelwall & Harries, 2004;Turnbull, 2000;Wilkinson et al, 2003). Other studies consider "electronic ingredients" in journal articles -either in reference lists or in abstracts -to gauge the impact of electronic publications on traditional print journal-based scholarly communication (Harter, 1992;Harter & Kim, 1996;ISI, 2004a;Lu, 1999;McCain, 2000;Youngen, 1997).…”

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Challenges of scholarly publications on the Web to the evaluation of science—A comparison of author visibility on the Web and in print journals

Zhao

2005

Information Processing & Management

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Invoked on the Web

Cited by 133 publications

References 22 publications

Who reads research articles? An altmetrics analysis of Mendeley user categories

Who reads research articles? An altmetrics analysis of Mendeley user categories

Extracting macroscopic information from Web links

Challenges of scholarly publications on the Web to the evaluation of science—A comparison of author visibility on the Web and in print journals

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