Developing Internet S&T Indicators for Science Policy and Decision-Making
(1998) Developing Internet S&T Indicators for Science Policy and Decision-Making. In Proceedings 5th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Hinxton, Cambridge (UK).
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Abstract
A new procedure to obtain quantitative indicators of science and technology is presented. The indicators are derived from the presence of R&D institutions in the Internet. The explicit hypertext links (sitations =website citations) embedded in the institutions websites are considered as if they were traditional citations and treated in a similar way as ISI (Institute of Scientific Information) does with the bibliographic citations.
Several indicators were obtained from a sample of 192 different websites representing the 76 Centres and Institutes with active presence in the World Wide Web out of a total of 109 that belong the Spanish National Council of Scientific Research (CSIC). Two combined methods were used to obtain the figures that describe quantitatively the websites: Agent mapping for extracting onsite values and search engines to evaluate external links. The indicators calculated were called density, an index of the relative number of links per site; endogamy designed to measure the relative weight of self-sitations and web impact factor, a visibility index taking into account the sitations received. The results show clearly that it is possible to obtain meaningful S&T Indicators from the presence in Internet of the R&D institutions. Some caution is recommended as larger samples are required to avoid “noise” and some important shortcomings of the current search engines.
| Keywords: | indicators, citation analysis, internet, sitations, cybermetrics, CSIC, endogamy, impact |
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| Subjects: | B. Information use and sociology of information. > BB. Bibliometric methods. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HQ. Web pages. |
| ID Code: | 8243 |
| Deposited By: | Aguillo, Isidro F. |
| Deposited On: | 21 December 2006 |
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