Web traffic and organization performance measures: Relationships and data sources examined

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 699-711

  Vaughan, Liwen ^a   Yang, Rongbin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai   (China)

Author keywords

Data quality assessment; Performance measurements; Web traffic analysis; Webometrics

Indexed keywords

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS;

DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT; FINANCIAL VARIABLES; ORGANIZATION PERFORMANCE; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; WEB TRAFFIC ANALYSIS; WEBOMETRICS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84880380432     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2013.04.005     Document Type: Article

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