期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science
出版年度：2012
卷号：38
期号：6
出版社：American Society for Information Science and Technology
摘要：The information science field of webometrics is "the study of the quantitative aspects of the construction and use of information resources, structures and technologies on the web drawing on bibliometric and informetric approaches" [1] or, more generally, "the study of web-based content with primarily quantitative methods for social science research goals using techniques that are not specific to one field of study"[2]. While the former definition emphasizes the informetric heritage of many bibliometric methods, the latter focuses on the value that webometrics could provide to the wider social sciences, reflecting a shift in webometrics over time from more theoretical studies to more applied studies, though retaining an emphasis on methods development. Webometrics currently provides a range of methods and software for various kinds of quantitative analyses of the web, and, despite initial concerns that web data would always be easily manipulated because they are not quality-controlled, the advocates of webometrics claim that it is useful both for studies of aspects of the web itself, such as hyperlinking among academic websites, and studies of offline phenomena that might be reflected online, such as political attitudes reflected in blogs.
