found: Work cat.: Thelwall, M.A. Introduction to webometrics : quantitative web research for the social sciences, c2009:abstr. (Webometrics is concerned with measuring aspects of the web: web sites, web pages, parts of web pages, words in web pages, hyperlinks, web search engine results)
found: Wikipedia, Apr. 29, 2009(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 Bjr̲neborn 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.")
found: Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group home page, June 1, 2009:about (Cybermetrics, or Webometrics, is mainly concerned with measuring aspects of the Web: web sites, web pages, parts of web pages, words in web pages, hyperlinks, web search engines; limitless possibilities for measuring or counting things on a huge scale or on a smaller scale; Webometrics is useful for social scientists with research topics that are wholly or partly online and for social scientists with offline research topics that may have an online reflection even if this is not a core component)
found: Boudourides, M.A. Webometrics and the self-organization of the European Information Society, 1999, via WWW, June 1, 2009("By webometrics we refer to the quantitative studies of electronic communication realized by the highly linked web"; webometry; webometric analyses)
found: Annual review of information science and technology, 2005:pp. 81-82 (Webometrics, the quantitative study of Web-related phenomena, emerged from the realization that methods originally designed for bibliometric analysis of scientific journal article citation patterns could be applied to the Web, with commercial search engines providing the raw data; a range of new terms for the emerging research field have been proposed since the mid-1990s, for instance, netometrics, webometry, internetometrics, webometrics, cybermetrics, Web bibliometry, and Web metrics (the term used in computer science). Webometrics and cybermetrics are currently the two most widely adopted terms in information science, often used as synonyms; four main areas of webometric research: 1. Web page content analysis, 2. Web link structure analysis, 3. Web usage analysis (e.g., exploiting log files of users' searching and browsing behavior), and 4. Web technology analysis (including search engine performance))
