Li, XM; Thelwall, M; Musgrove, P; Wilkinson, D "The relationship between the WIFs or inlinks of Computer Science Departments in UK and their RAE ratings or research productivities in 2001" SCIENTOMETRICS 57 (2). 2003. p.239-255

[Eugene Garfield]

Xuemei Li :  X.Li4 at wlv.ac.uk

TITLE:          The relationship between the WIFs or inlinks of Computer
                Science Departments in UK and their RAE ratings or research
                productivities in 2001 (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Li, XM; Thelwall, M; Musgrove, P; Wilkinson, D
SOURCE:         SCIENTOMETRICS 57 (2). 2003. p.239-255 KLUWER ACADEMIC
                PUBL, DORDRECHT

ABSTRACT:       Previous research has shown that Weblink based metrics
can correlate with traditional research assessment at the university
level. In this study, we test whether the same is true for the computer
science departments in the UK. The relevant Web Impact Factors (WIFs)
were calculated from the link data collected both from Alta Vista and the
special academic crawler of the University of Wolverhampton.The numbers
of staff members and Web pages in each computer science department were
used as denominators for the WIFs calculation. The number of inlinks to
the computer science departments correlated significantly with their
research productivities, and WIFs with numbers of staff members as
denominators correlated significantly with their Research Assessment
Exercise (RAE) ratings.The number of staff members was confirmed to be a
better indicator of departmental size than the number of Web pages within
the department's domain.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: XM Li, Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol,
                35-49 Lichfield St, Wolverhampton WV1 1EL, England