In webometric research interlinking and co-inlinking has been studied extensively, but co-outlinking has been used as a data collection and research method only in a couple of studies before. Yet it may have some potential as a tool for mapping shared interests of organizations creating the outgoing links. This research studied this potential of co-outlinking and mapped the shared interests of ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: some of the most frequently used webometric indicators for evaluating and ranking academic web sites are web impact factor, number of web pages and number of inlinks. the present study evaluated and ranked top iranian medical universities according to the webometric indicators. methods: the present cross-sect...

Abstract There has been increasing interest in the study of research communities with goal optimizing their outcomes and impact. While current methods can predict future trends, they offer little insight about causes trends. However, causal is important for strategic decision making to improve a community. This paper presents new method possible inefficiencies community by relating them disconn...

The area of researching folksonomies is still in development, so theoretical perspective and research methods are still being defined. This study conducts a webometric and bibliometric analysis of the folksonomy research in the Library and Information science (LIS) field by collecting data from Web of Science (WOS), SCOPUS and Google Scholar in July 2014. It utilizes a total of 346 papers with ...

This literature review assesses indicators derived from social media sources, including both general and academic sites. Such indicators have been termed altmetrics, influmetrics, social media metrics, or a type of webometric, and have recently been commercialised by a number of companies and employed by some publishers and university administrators. The social media metrics analysed here deriv...