Webometrics The science of webometrics ( also cybermetrics ) tries to measure the World Wide Web to get knowledge about the number and types of hyperlinks , structure of the World Wide Web and usage patterns . According to Björneborn and Ingwersen ( 2004 ), the definition of webometrics is " the study of the quantitative aspects of the construction and use of information resources , structures and technologies on the Web drawing on bibliometric and informetric approaches ." The term webometricswas first coined by Almind and Ingwersen ( 1 ). A second definition of webometrics has also been introduced , " the study of web-based content with primarily quantitative methods for social science research goals using techniques that are not specific to one field of study " ( 35 ), which emphasizes the development of applied methods for use in the wider social sciences . The purpose of this alternative definition was to help publicize appropriate methods outside of the information science discipline rather than to replace the original definition within information science . Cybermetrics is one of the recently emerged fields in the line of metric studies . It has gained
Webometrics The science of webometrics ( also cybermetrics ) tries to measure the World Wide Web to get knowledge about the number and types of hyperlinks , structure of the World Wide Web and usage patterns . According to Björneborn and Ingwersen ( 2004 ), the definition of webometrics is " the study of the quantitative aspects of the construction and use of information resources , structures and technologies on the Web drawing on bibliometric and informetric approaches ." The term webometricswas first coined by Almind and Ingwersen ( 1 ). A second definition of webometrics has also been introduced , " the study of web-based content with primarily quantitative methods for social science research goals using techniques that are not specific to one field of study " ( 35 ), which emphasizes the development of applied methods for use in the wider social sciences . The purpose of this alternative definition was to help publicize appropriate methods outside of the information science discipline rather than to replace the original definition within information science . Cybermetrics is one of the recently emerged fields in the line of metric studies . It has gained
much popularity since the mid-1990 with the advent of Information Technology . As it is mainly concerned with the computer-science-based approaches , it has superseded all other metric studies i� this I�ter�et Era . Cy�er�etri�s is proposed as a ge�eri� ter� for �The study of the quantitative aspects of the construction and use of information resources , structures and te�h�ologies o� the whole I�ter�et drawi�g o� �i�lio�etri� a�d i�for�etri� approa�hes . � Cybermetrics thus encompasses statistical studies of discussion groups , mailing lists , and other computer – mediated communication on the internet , including the www . Besides covering all computer-mediated communication by using internet applications , this definition of cybermetrics also covers quantitative measures of the internet backbone technology , topology and traffic . The breadth of coverage of cybermetrics implies large overlaps with proliferating computer-science-based approaches in analyses of web contents , link structures , and web usage and web technologies . The Webometrics which studies are the quantitative aspects of the World Wide Web . The Cybermetrics which is similar to webometrics ; but broadens its scope ; which include namely the electronic resources . Research of all network-based communications by using informetric or other quantitative measures is called webometrics .
There has been a revolutionising symbiosis between computer and communication technologies in the west over the past ten years . The invention of World Wide Web ( www ) a part of the ‘ INTERNET ’, which is the mother of networks , has practically webbed the information globally under less than one roof . There has been a shift in navigational approaches from syntactical to semantic ( i . e ., from sentences to words ), as an ever increasing number of research institutes , universities and business organisations are currently providing information about themselves in the form their articles , publications , reports , catalogues and other information resources on the