The impact of impermanent Web‐located citations: A study of 123 scholarly conference publications

Sellitto, Carmine

doi:10.1002/asi.20159

Cited by 33 publications

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“…About 31% of the electronic citations out of 2,516 were not accessible while half-life was about five years. Their findings were also consistent with Sellitto's (2005) in terms of higher rate of availability for URLs extracted from recently published journals where over 65% of the 3-year-old or earlier URLs were accessible. They also found that URLs at educational (.edu) top-level domain were more susceptible to link rot than that of .org top-level domain.…”

Section: Document Persistencesupporting

confidence: 89%

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Document constancy and persistence: A study of Web pages in library and information science domain

Oguz

Koehler

2011

Proc. Am. Soc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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A selection of ninety English language library and information science organization Web sites and their associated pages are analyzed. A majority of Web sites are located on the .org generic top-level domain or the country code top-level domain of the country of origin (to include .int). The Web sites and pages were monitored for ninetyone days beginning November 2, 2010. The data suggest that while Web sites may fluctuate in size on a day to day basis, there is a general tendency toward accretion of pages. Web pages on these organizational Web sites appear to be more persistent than on the Web in general. There is significant variation in constancy as measured by the cosine similarity algorithm.

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Section: Document Persistencesupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Sellitto (2005) reported that a great majority (96%) of electronic citations in AusWeb conference papers were accessible within a year of publication. In a recent study by Wagner et al (2009) Rhodes (2010) examined the persistence of URLs extracted from law-and policy-related materials over a three-year period (2008)(2009)(2010).…”

Section: Document Persistencementioning

confidence: 98%

Document constancy and persistence: A study of Web pages in library and information science domain

Oguz

Koehler

2011

Proc. Am. Soc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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“…SPINELLIS [2003] studied the availability of URLs mentioned in two computer science journals: Computer and Communications of the ACM -72% of the URLs were retrieved without problems. SELLITTO [2005] News Web bibliographies. They conclude that the half-life of the URLs in these lists is about 5 years.…”

Section: Persistence Of Web Referencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The lifespan of “informetrics” on the Web: An eight year study (1998–2006)

Bar‐Ilan

Peritz

2008

Scientometrics

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The World Wide Web is growing at an enormous speed, and has become an indispensable source for information and research. New pages are constantly added, but there are additional processes as well: pages are moved or removed and/or their content changes. We report here the results of an eight year long project started in 1998, when multiple search engines were used to identify a set of pages containing the term informetrics. Data collection was repeated once a year for the last eight years (with the exception of 2000 and 2001) using both search engines and revisiting previously identified pages. The results show that the number of pages grew from 866 in 1998 to 28,914 in 2006 -a 33-fold growth. Besides the obvious growth of the topic on the Web, we observed both decay (pages disappearing from the Web) and modification. Even though most of the pages from 1998 either disappeared or ceased to contain the term informetrics, 165 pages (19.1%) still exist in 2006 and contain the search term. We followed the "fate" of these 165 pages: characterized the publishers, the contents and the changes that occurred the whole period. In recent years e-print servers and publishers' sites became sources of large number of pages related to informetrics. Longitudinal studies following the evolution of a topic on the Web are very important, since they provide insights about content and the underlying Web processes.

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“…The studies on web citation analysis in the past have witnessed the most frequent use of URLs (Casserly and Bird 2003;Spinellis 2003;Sellitto 2005;Maharana, Nayak, and Sahu 2006;Falagas, Karveli and Tritsaroli 2008;Goh and Ng 2007;and Moghaddam and Saberi 2011;Sampath Kumar and Manoj Kuma, 2012;Gul, Mahaj and Ali 2014). Studies focused on web resources have witnessed the loss of URLs.…”

Section: Vanished Urlsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recovery of vanished URLs: Comparing the efficiency of Internet Archive and Google

Kumar

2017

MJLIS

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The impact of impermanent Web‐located citations: A study of 123 scholarly conference publications

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Cited by 33 publications

References 15 publications

Document constancy and persistence: A study of Web pages in library and information science domain

Document constancy and persistence: A study of Web pages in library and information science domain

The lifespan of “informetrics” on the Web: An eight year study (1998–2006)

Recovery of vanished URLs: Comparing the efficiency of Internet Archive and Google

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