Thelwall M, Harries G. "Do the web sites of higher rated scholars have significantly more online impact?" JASIST 55(2):149-159 January 15, 2004
Eugene Garfield
garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU
Tue Apr 6 15:54:31 EDT 2004
E-MAIL: THELWALL M. - m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk
TITLE Do the Web sites of higher rated scholars have significantly
more online impact?
AUTHOR Thelwall M, Harries G
JOURNAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (2): 149-159 JAN 15 2004
Document type: Review Language: English Cited References: 101
Times Cited: 0 Explanation
Abstract:
The quality and impact of academic Web sites is of interest to many
audiences, including the scholars who use them and Web educators who need
to identify best practice. Several large-scale European Union research
projects have been funded to build new indicators for online scientific
activity, reflecting recognition of the importance of the Web for scholarly
communication. In this paper we address the key question of whether higher
rated scholars produce higher impact Web sites, using the United Kingdom as
a case study and measuring scholars' quality in terms of university-wide
average research ratings. Methodological issues concerning the measurement
of the online impact are discussed, leading to the adoption of counts of
links to a university's constituent single domain Web sites from an
aggregated counting metric. The findings suggest that universities with
higher rated scholars produce significantly more Web content but with a
similar average online impact. Higher rated scholars therefore attract more
total links from their peers, but only by being more prolific, refuting
earlier suggestions. It can be surmised that general Web publications are
very different from scholarly journal articles and conference papers, for
which scholarly quality does associate with citation impact. This has
important implications for the construction of new Web indicators, for
example that online impact should not be used to assess the quality of
small groups of scholars, even within a single discipline.
KeyWords Plus:
WORLD-WIDE-WEB, CITATION ANALYSIS, BIBLIOMETRIC METHODS, SEARCH ENGINE,
SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY, LINKS, INFORMATION, DEPARTMENTS, COMMUNICATION
Addresses:
Thelwall M, Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, Wulfruna St,
Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, England
Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB,
England
Publisher:
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA
IDS Number:
754UX
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