Toward a basic framework for webometrics

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1216-1227

  Björneborn, Lennart ^a   Ingwersen, Peter ^a  

^a ROYAL SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LIBRARIES; SERVERS; TEACHING; WEB BROWSERS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; FRAMEWORKS; WEB NODES; WEBOMETRICS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 9744281241     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20077     Document Type: Article

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