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This is the blog of the book Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences, by Mike Thelwall. Please leave a comment on the whole book or if you have a comment on an individual chapter, leave that comment on the blank blog post for that chapter. Thank you!
I think you do not to enter to the all details about " webometrics " in this chapter because there are alot studies by you about that theoretical sides. It is ok.
ReplyDeletemr.mahmoud shrief, assistant lecturer
- library and information science, (Egypt). my phd project in: webometrics.
Thank you for this comment - the first for the book blog! With this book I have tried to make it as easy to understand as possible for people who are completely new to the field and have gone into less detail than the previous link analysis book as a result of this. I know that you are already experienced with webometrics so you have noticed the missing parts!
ReplyDeleteBest wishes,
Mike
Lennart Björneborn has noticed that I incorrectly said that his definition excluded non-information science research. In his thesis and in the JASIST 2004 paper, he's stressed contacts with other fields. For example, in the 2004 paper, p. 1217:
ReplyDelete“This domain lineage is stressed by the formulation “drawing on bibliometric and informetric approaches” because “drawing on” denotes a heritage without limiting further methodological developments of Web-specific approaches, including the incorporation of approaches of Web studies in computer science, social network analysis, hypertext research, media studies, and so forth. “
Also on p.1217:
“This includes hybrid forms, for example, Pirolli, Pitkow, and Rao (1996) who explored Web analysis techniques for automatic categorization utilizing link graph topology, text content and metadata similarity, as well as usage data.”
please Dr. Thelwall ...
ReplyDeleteI can not understand this paragraph in Chapter 1 as the following:
" There are important disadvantages too, such as a lack of control over the web “sample” used and the restriction to web-only data. In summary,
the web can often be used for quick, indicative results and, in some cases, can be used for
more in-depth studies".
Q: What about this word:the web “sample” used?
Thanks
Thanks for the question. The word "sample" is referring to data returned by a search engine for a webometric study. When you collect data from web search engines you don't fully control this data because search engines don't cover every page in the web and they don't report on which pages they do and don't cover. So the data returned, your "sample" for your research, may not be representative of the rest of the web or may have important gaps. I hope this helps a bit.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes,
Mike
please Dr. Thelwall ...
ReplyDeleteCan I translate your book into Arabic? .In yesterday, My supervisor, Prof.Dr.Shaban A. Khalifa in Cairo University, recommend me to do that ? can you help me?
I have no idea about :" (the RESCAR project) " in this paragraph: (P 5)
ReplyDeleteOne study (the RESCAR project) took
advantage of research group web sites to investigate just one aspect: researcher mobility. Another compared web-based and traditional bibliometric methods (Author Cocitation Analysis) for mapping the structure of academic fields.
can you tell me about that project, please?
Yes I would be very happy for you to translate the book into Arabic! Please email me and I can send you information. If you plan to distribute or publish the book in Arabic then please also contact the publishers (I can give you their address).
ReplyDeleteThere is a page of informaiton about the RESCAR project at the URL below - there used to be a web site about it but it has gone now.
Best wishes,
Mike
http://www.erawatch-network.eu/en/Projects/research-inventory-service/collection-and-analysis-of-existing-data-on-researchers-careers-and-implementation-of-new-data-collection-activities.html