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 As it is mainly concerned with the computer-science-based approaches, it has superseded all other metric studies i� this I�ter�et Era.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