ABS: Bar-Ilan, The Web as an information source on informetrics? A content analysis.

[Gretchen Whitney]

Author's email address is  - judit at cc.huji.ac.il

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AU Bar-Ilan, J
TI The Web as an information source on informetrics? A content
   analysis
SO JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
NR 36
C1 Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Sch Lib Archive & Informat Studies, POB
   1255, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel.
   Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Sch Lib Archive & Informat Studies, IL-91904
Jerusalem, Israel.
ID WORLD-WIDE-WEB; SEARCH ENGINES; INTERNET USE; DISCIPLINES;
   RESOURCES; OVERLAP
AB This article addresses the question of whether the Web can
   serve as an information source for research. Specifically, it
   analyzes by way of content analysis the Web pages retrieved by
   the major search engines on a particular date (June 7, 1998),
   as a result of the query "informetrics OR informetric." In 807
   out of the 942 retrieved pages, the search terms were mentioned
   in the context of information science. Over 70% of the pages
   contained only indirect information on the topic, in the form
   of hypertext links and bibliographical references without
   annotation. The bibliographical references extracted from the
   Web pages were analyzed, and lists of most productive authors,
   most cited authors, works, and sources were compiled. The list
   of references obtained from the Web was also compared to data
   retrieved from commercial databases. For most cases, the list
   of references extracted from the Web outperformed the
   commercial, bibliographic databases. The results of these
   comparisons indicate that valuable, freely available data is
   hidden in the Web waiting to be extracted from the millions of
   Web pages.
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EP 443
PG 12
JI J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.
PY 2000
PD MAR 15
VL 51
IS 5
GA 287FK
RP Bar-Ilan J
   Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Sch Lib Archive & Informat Studies, POB 1255,
IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel.
J9 J AMER SOC INFORM SCI
UT ISI:000085495700003
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