A statistical analysis of the web presences of European life sciences research teams

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Autor:innen
Thelwall, Mike
Autor:in (Körperschaft)
Publikationsdatum
2008
Typ der Arbeit
Studiengang
Typ
01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
Herausgeber:innen
Herausgeber:in (Körperschaft)
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Übergeordnetes Werk
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Reihe / Serie
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Jahrgang / Band
59
Ausgabe / Nummer
4
Seiten / Dauer
628-643
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Zusammenfassung
Web links have been used for around ten years to explore the online impact of academic information and information producers. Nevertheless, few studies have attempted to relate link counts to relevant offline attributes of the owners of the targeted Web sites, with the exception of research productivity. This article reports the results of a study to relate site inlink counts to relevant owner characteristics for over 400 European life-science research group Web sites. The analysis confirmed that research-group size and Web-presence size were important for attracting Web links, although research productivity was not. Little evidence was found for significant influence of any of an array of factors, including research-group leader gender and industry connections. In addition, the choice of search engine for link data created a surprising international difference in the results, with Google perhaps giving unreliable results. Overall, the data collection, statistical analysis and results interpretation were all complex and it seems that we still need to know more about search engines, hyperlinks, and their function in science before we can draw conclusions on their usefulness and role in the canon of science and technology indicators.
Schlagwörter
Wissenschaft, Internet, Webometrik, Scientometrik
Fachgebiet (DDC)
330 - Wirtschaft
659 - Werbung & Public Releations (PR)
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Sprache
Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Ja
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Begutachtung
Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation
Open Access-Status
Lizenz
Zitation
BARJAK, Franz und Mike THELWALL, 2008. A statistical analysis of the web presences of European life sciences research teams. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 2008. Bd. 59, Nr. 4, S. 628–643. DOI 10.1002/asi.20776. Verfügbar unter: http://hdl.handle.net/11654/9878