ABS: Thomas, Webometric analysis of departments of librarianship and information science

[Gretchen Whitney]

 E-MAIL:                P. Willett      p.willett at sheffield.ac.uk

 TITLE          Webometric analysis of departments of librarianship and
 information science
 AUTHOR  Thomas O, Willett P
 JOURNAL         JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE
                                        26 (6): 421-428 2000

  Document type: Article     Language: English    Cited References: 26
 Times Cited: 0

 Abstract:
 This paper describes a webometric analysis of the linkages (or
'sitations') to websites associated with departments of librarianship and
 information science (LIS).

Some of the observed sitation counts appear counter-intuitive and there is
only a very limited correlation with peer evaluations of research
performance, with many  of the sitations being from pages that are far
removed in subject matter from LIS.

Our conclusions are that sitation data are not well suited to the
quantitative evaluation of the research status of LIS departments and that
departments can best boost their web visibility by hosting as wide a range
of types of material as possible.

 KeyWords Plus:
 RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE, WEB IMPACT FACTORS, CITATION, LIBRARY

 Addresses:
 Willett P, Univ Sheffield, Dept Informat Studies, Western Bank, Sheffield
 S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, England
 Univ Sheffield, Dept Informat Studies, Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire,
 England

 Publisher:
 BOWKER-SAUR, E GRINSTEAD

 IDS Number:
 393KX

 ISSN:
 0165-5515

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