Webometric analysis of departments of librarianship and information science: A follow-up study

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-152

  Arakaki, Mónica ^a   Willett, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Research Assessment Exercise; Webometrics

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES;

ACADEMIC RESEARCHES; APPROPRIATE TECHNIQUES; CITATION ANALYSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOOGLE SCHOLARS; INLINKS; INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES; LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE; WEB SEARCH ENGINES; WEBOMETRICS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 62449131280     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551508094051     Document Type: Article

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