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Research Article
Scientific research activity and communication measured with cybermetrics indicators
Article first published online: 25 MAY 2006
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20433
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Issue
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Volume 57, Issue 10, pages 1296–1302, August 2006
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How to Cite
Aguillo, I. F., Granadino, B., Ortega, J. L. and Prieto, J. A. (2006), Scientific research activity and communication measured with cybermetrics indicators. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 57: 1296–1302. doi: 10.1002/asi.20433
Publication History
- Issue published online: 13 JUL 2006
- Article first published online: 25 MAY 2006
- Manuscript Accepted: 22 AUG 2005
- Manuscript Revised: 19 JUL 2005
- Manuscript Received: 9 JUN 2005
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Abstract
To test feasibility of cybermetric indicators for describing and ranking university activities as shown in their Web sites, a large set of 9,330 institutions worldwide was compiled and analyzed. Using search engines' advanced features, size (number of pages), visibility (number of external inlinks), and number of rich files (pdf, ps, doc, ppt, and xls formats) were obtained for each of the institutional domains of the universities. We found a statistically significant correlation between a Web ranking built on a combination of Webometric data and other university rankings based on bibliometric and other indicators. Results show that cybermetric measures could be useful for reflecting the contribution of technologically oriented institutions, increasing the visibility of developing countries, and improving the rankings based on Science Citation Index (SCI) data with known biases.