Quality assessment in the blog space

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is the presentation of a new method for blog quality assessment. The method uses the temporal sequence of link creation events between blogs as an implicit source for the collective tacit knowledge of blog authors about blog quality. Design/methodology/approach: The blog data are processed by the novel method for the assessment of blog quality. The results are compared to Google Page Rank with respect to the Gold Standard, the BlogRazzi Bookmark Rank. Findings: The method is similar or better than Google Page Rank with respect to the chosen Gold Standard. Originality/value: The major contribution of this paper is the introduction of a novel method for blog quality assessment. Even though its superiority to other and more established methods cannot be proven in the context of this limited study, it enriches the toolset available for blog quality assessment and may become important for a deeper understanding of organizational learning. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited

On the utilization of non‐quality assessed literature in software engineering research

“…34,42,43 • Frequency of non-indexed WOS sources and their indexing in DBLP and Google Scholar (for each selected study) can be seen in Appendix B, Tables B5-B7 or can be seen in Figures 2 and 3 Valuable information/knowledge can come from articles, blog posts, and so on that are created outside of the academic world. 44 Such knowledge/information literature is (generally) not covered by Google Scholar. As our results showed that almost 98% of non-indexed references are indeed indexed by Google Scholar, this would mean that SE literature tends to avoid informal literature in the sense of blog posts, white papers, and so on.…”

“…Valuable information/knowledge can come from articles, blog posts, and so on that are created outside of the academic world 44 . Such knowledge/information literature is (generally) not covered by Google Scholar.…”