Informetric theories and methods for exploring the internet: An analytical survey of recent research literature

Library Trends

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 371-392

  Bar Ilan, Judit ^a   Peritz, Bluma C ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044533814     PISSN: 00242594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (80)

1. 100hot methodology (n.d.). Retrieved November 25, 2000 from http://www.100hot.com/help/methodology.html).
2. Aguillo, I. F. (1997). STM information on the Web and development of new Internet R & D databases and indicators. Online Information '97 Proceedings (pp. 239-243). Oxford: Learned Information Europe, Ltd.
3. Aguillo, I. F. (2000). A new generation of tools for search, recovery, and quality evaluation of World Wide Web medical resources. Online Information Review, 24(2), 138-143.
4. Aguillo, I. F., & Pareja, V. M. (2000). Indicators of the Internet presence of the Western European Research Councils. Poster Presentation at S&T 2000, Leiden, the Netherlands, May 2000. Retrieved November 23, 2000 from http://sahara.fsw.leidenuniv.nl/cwts/abs/AGUILLO.txt.
5. Aires-de-Sousa, J. (1999). An electronic discussion forum for organic chemistry - The ORGLIST case. Internet Journal of Chemistry, 2(21), 1-10.
6. Albert, R.; Jeong, H.; & Barabasi, A. L. (1999). Diameter of the World Wide Web. Nature, 40/(6749), 130-131.
7. Almind, T. C., & Ingwersen, P. (1997). Informetric analyses on the World Wide Web: Methodological approaches to "webometrics." Journal of Documentation, 53(4), 404-426.
8. Barabasi, A. L., & Albert, R. (1999). Emergence of scaling in random networks. Science, 256(5439), 509-512.
9. Bar-Ilan, J. (1997). The 'Mad Cow Disease', Usenet newsgroups and bibliometric law's. Scientometrics, 39(1), 29-55.
10. Bar-Ilan, J. (1998). The mathematician, Paul Erdos (1913-1996) in the eyes of the Internet. Scientometrics, 43(2), 257-267.
11. Bar-Ilan, J. (1999). Search engine results over time - A case study on search engine stability. Cybermetrics, 2/3(1), paper 1. Retrieved November 15, 2000 from http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v2ilpl.html.
12. Bar-Ilan, J. (2000a). Evaluating the stability of the search tools Hotbot and Snap: A case study. Online Information Review, 24(6), 439-449.
13. Bar-Ilan, J. (2000b). Results of an extensive search for "S&T indicators" on the Web - A content analysis. Scientometrics, 49(2), 257-277.
14. Bar-Ilan, J. (2000c) The Web as information source on informetrics? - A content analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(5), 432-443.
15. Bar-Ilan, J. (2001). Data collection methods on the Web for informetric purposes - A review and analysis. Scientometrics, 50(1), 7-32.
16. Bar-Ilan J., & Assouline B. (1997). A content analysis of PUBYAC - A preliminary study. Information Technology and Libraries, 16(4), 165-174.
17. Bar-Ilan, J., & Peritz B. C. (1999). The life span of a specific topic on the Web; The case of 'informetrics': A quantitative analysis. Scientometrics, 46(3), 371-382.
18. Bauer C., & Scharl, A. (2000). Quantitative evaluation of Web site content and structure. Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy, 10(1), 31-43.
19. Berman, Y. (1996). Discussion groups on the Internet as sources of information: The case of social work. ASLIB Proceedings, 48(2), 31-36.
20. th International World Wide Web Conference, April 1998). Retrieved November 15, 2000 from http://decweb.ethz.ch/WWW7/1937/com1937.htm.
21. th International World Wide Web Conference, April 1998). Retrieved November 15, 2000 from http://www7.scu.edu.au/programme/ fullpapers/1938/com1938.htm.
22. th International World Wide Web Conference).
23. th International World Wide Web Conference, May 2000). Retrieved November 15, 2000 from http://www9.org/w9cdrom/264/264/html.
24. th International World Wide Web Conference, May 2000). Retrieved August 20, 2000 from www9.org/w9cdrom/160.160.html.
25. Brookes, B. C. (1990). Biblio-, sciento-, infor-metrics What are we talking about? In L. Egghe & R. Rousseau (Eds.), Informetrics (vol. 89/90, pp. 31-42). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
26. Bucy, E. P.; Lang, A.; Potter, R. F.; & Grabe, M. E. (1999). Formal features of Cyberspace: Relationships between Web page complexity and site traffic. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(13), 1246-1256.
27. Chakrabarti, S.; Dom, B.; Kumar, R. S.; Raghavan, P.; Rajagopalan, S.; Tomkins, A.; Kleinberg, J. M.; & Gibson, D. (1999). Hypersearching the Web. Scientific American, 280(6), 54-60. Retrieved November 15, 2000 from http://www.sciam.com/1999/0699issue/0699raghavan.html.
28. th International World Wide Web Conference, May 1999). Retrieved November 15, 2000 from http://www8.org/w8-papers/5b-hypertext- media/surfing/surfing.html.
29. Cronin, B.; Snyder, H.; Rosenbaum, H.; Martinson, A.; & Callahan, E. (1998). Invoked on the Web. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(14), 1319-1328.
30. Cui, L. (1999). Rating health Web sites using the principles of citation analysis: A bibliometric approach. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 1(1), e4. Retrieved November 18, 2000 from http://www.jmir.org/1999/1/e4/index.htm.
31. th International World Wide Web Conference, May 1999). Retrieved November 18, 2000 from http://www8.org/w8-papers/4a-search-mining/finding/ finding.html.
32. Direct Hit Technology, (n.d.). Retrieved November 23, 2000 from http://www.directhit.com/about/products/.
33. Douglis, F.; Feldmann, A.; Krishnamurthy, B.; & Mogul, J. (1997). Rate of change and other metrics: A live study of the World Wide Web. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, Monterey, California, December 8-11, 1997. Retrieved November 20, 2000 from http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usits97/full_papers/ douglis_rate.
34. th Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics.Jerusalem, June 16-19, 1997.
35. Reprinted in Scientometrics, 40(3) (1997), 455-464.
36. Egghe, L. (2000). New informetric aspects of the Internet Some reflections - Many problems. Journal of Information Science, 26(5), 329-335.
37. Garfield, E. (1999). From the World Brain to the informatorium - With a little help from Manfred Kochen. Presented at the Symposium in Honor of Manfred Kochen at the University of Michigan, September 21, 1999. Retrieved November 18, 2000 from hup://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/kocnen_worldbrain.html.
38. Goodrum, A. A.; McCain, K. W.; Lawrence, S.; & Giles, L. C. (2001). Scholarly publishing in the Internet age: A citation analysis of computer science literature. Information Processing and Management, 37(5), 661-675.
39. Gordon, M., & Pathak, P. (1999). Finding information on the World Wide Web: The retrieval effectiveness of search engines. Information Processing and Management, 35(2), 141-180.
40. Haas, S. W., & Grams, E. S. (2000). Readers, authors and page structure: A discussion of four questions arising from a content analysis of Web pages. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(2), 181-192.
41. Harter, S. P. (1996). The impact of electronic journals on scholarly communication: A citation analysis. The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 7(5). Retrieved November 12, 2000 from http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n5/hart7n5. html.
42. Harter, S. P. (1998). Scholarly communication and electronic journals: An impact study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(6), 507-516.
43. th International World Wide Web Conference, May 1999). Retrieved February 11, 2002 from http://www8.org/w8- papers/2c-search-discover/measuring/measuring.html
44. Huberman, B. A., & Adamic L. A. (1999). Growth dynamics of the World Wide Web. Nature, 401(6749), 131.
45. Huberman, B. A.; Pirolli, P. L. T.; Pitkow, J. E.; & Lukose, R. M. (1998). Strong regularities in World Wide Web surfing. Science, 280(5360), 95-97.
46. Ingwersen, P. (1998). The calculation of Web impact factors. Journal of Documentation, 4(2), 236-243.
47. Jansen, B. J.; Spink, A; & Saracevic, T. (2000). Real life, real users, and real needs: A study and analysis of user queries on the Web. Information Processing and Management, 36, 207-227.
48. Kaminer N., & Braunstein Y. M. (1998). Bibliometric analysis of the impact of Internet use on scholarly productivity. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(8), 720-730.
49. th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 1998.
50. Rprinted in Journal of the ACM, 46(5) (1999), 601-632. Retrieved November 12, 2000 from http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/auth.ps.
51. Koehler, W. (1999). An analysis of Web page and Web site constancy and permanence. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(2), 162-180.
52. Koehler, W., et al. (2000). A bibliometric analysis of select information science print and electronic journals in the 1990s. Information Research, 6(1). Retrieved November 25, 2000 from http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/ paper88.html.
53. Kovacs, D. K.; Robinson, K. L.; & Dixon, J. (1995). Scholarly e-conferences on the academic networks. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46(4), 244-253.
54. Kumar, R.; Raghauam, P.; Rajagopalan, S.; & Tomkins, A. (1999). Trawling the Web for emerging cyber-communities. Computer Networks, 31(11), 1481-1493.
55. Larson, R. (1996). Bibliometrics of the World Wide Web: An exploratory analysis of the intellectual structure of Cyberspace. In Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 33, 71-78. Medford: Information Today, Inc. Retrieved November 12, 2000 from http://sherlock.berkeley.edu/asis96/asis96.html.
56. Laurence, S.; Bollacker, K.; & Giles, C. L. (1999). Digital libraries and autonomous citation indexing. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 32(6), 67-71.
57. Lawrence, S., & Giles, C. L. (1998). Searching the World Wide Web. Science, 280(5360), 98-100.
58. Lawrence, S., & Giles, C. L. (1999). Accessibility and distribution of information on the Web. Nature, 400(6740), 107-109.
59. Lazinger, S. S.; Bar-Ilan, J.; & Peritz, B. C. (1997). Internet use by faculty members in various disciplines: A comparative case study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(6), 508-518.
60. Leydesdorff, L., & Curran, M. (2000). Mapping university-industry- government relations on the Internet: The construction of indicators for a knowledge-based economy. Cybermetrics, 4(1), paper 2. Retrieved November 12, 2000 from http://www.cindoc.csis.es/cybermetrics/articles/v4i1p2/html.
61. Life on the Internet. (n.d.). Retrieved November 12, 2000 from http://www.pbs.org/internet/timeline.
62. Moore, A., & Murray, B. H. (2000). Sizing the Internet. Retrieved November 14, 2000 from http://www.cyveillance.com/web/us/downloads/ Sizing_the_Internet.pdf.
63. Oppenheim, C.; Morris, A.; McKnight, C; & Lowley, S. (2000). The evaluation of WWW search engines. Journal of Documentation, 56(2), 190-211.
64. th International World Wide Web Conference, April 1998). Retrieved November 15, 2000 from http://www7.scu.edu.au/programme/ fullpapers/1921/com1921.htm.
65. Pinski, G., & Narin, F. (1976). Citation influence for journal aggregates of scientific publications: Theory, with application to the literature of physics. Information Processing and Management, 12, 297-312.
66. Piper, A. (1998). Conducting social science laboratory experiments on the World Wide Web. Library and Information Science Research, 20(1), 5-21.
67. Rosenbaum, H. (1998). Web-based community networks: A study of information organization and access. In Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 35, 516-530. Medford: Information Today, Inc.
68. Ross, N. C. M., & Wolfram, D. (2000). End user searching on the Internet: An analysis of term pair topics submitted to the Excite search engine. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 57(10), 949-958.
69. Rousseau, R. (1997). Sitations: An exploratory study. Cybermetrics, 1(1), Retrieved November 20, 2000 from http://www.cindoc.es/cybermetrics/articles/ vlilpl.htm.
70. Rousseau, R. (1999). Daily time series of common single word searches in AltaVista and Northern Light. Cybermetrics, 2/3(1), paper 2, Retrieved August 20, 2000 from http://www.cindoc.csis.es/cybermetrics/articles/v2ilp2.html.
71. Savolainen, R. (1998). Use studies of electronic networks: A review of empirical research approaches and challenges for their development. Journal of Documentation, 54(3), 332-351.
72. Schoch, N. A., & White, M. D. (1997). A study of the communication patterns of participants in consumer health electronic discussion groups. Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 34, 280-292. Medford: Information Today, Inc.
73. Smith, A. G. (1999). A tale of two Web spaces: Comparing sites using Web impact factors. Journal of Documentation, 55(5), 577-592.
74. Spink, A.; Bateman, J.; & Jansen, B. J. (1999). Searching the Web: A survey of Excite users. Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy, 9(2), 117-128.
75. Tague-Sutcliffe, J. (1992). An introduction to informetrics. Information Processing and Management, 28(1), 1-3.
76. Thelwall, M. (2000). Web impact factors and search engine coverage. Journal of Documentation, 56(2), 185-189.
77. Watson, J. S. (1998) "If you don't have it, you can't find it." A close look at students' perceptions of using technology. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(11), 1024-1036.
78. th International World Wide Web Conference, May 1996). Retrieved November 14, 2000 from http://www5conf.inria.fr/fich_html/papers/P7/Overview.html.
79. Zhang, Y. (1998). The impact of Internet-based electronic resources on formal scholarly communication in the area of library and information science: A citation analysis. Journal of Information Science, 24(4), 241-254.
80. Zhang, Y. (2000). Using the Internet for survey research: A case study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(1), 57-68.