ART: Cui, Rating Health Web Sites Using the Principles of Citation Analysis

[Gretchen Whitney]

Corresponding author:
Lei Cui M.D., M. S.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medical
Library and Information Sciences
China Medical University
95, Bei 2 Rd, Shenyang, 110001
P. R. China
lcui at iris.cmu.edu.cn

Rating Health Web sites using the principles of Citation Analysis: A
Bibliometric Approach

Journal of Medical Internet Research 1999 1(1)

http://www.symposion.com/jmir/1999/1/e4/index.htm

"The rapid growth in the number of health care related web sites
necessitates that medical librarians be able to evaluate the quality of
the web sites. By analysing the linked sources medical libraries web pages
of nineteen of the top U.S. medical schools, this study used
the citation analysis method. What was found with this bibliometric
approach was a set of 78 most highly cited WWW sites out of thousands of
cited links. The identification of the current, core section of health
sciences related web sites with a bibliometric method gives librarians and
information scientists another approach for evaluating web sites."




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