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web impact factor

Description: A webometric measure of the number of links pointing to a website relative to its number of pages, used to assess online visibility or impact.
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The calculation of web impact factors
1998 · Peter Ingwersen · Journal of Documentation · 469
Perspective of webometrics
2001 · Lennart Björneborn, Peter Ingwersen · Scientometrics · 201
Extracting macroscopic information from Web links
2001 · Mike Thelwall · Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · 176
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A Tale of Two Web Spaces: Comparing Sites Using Web Impact Factors.
1999 · Alastair G. Smith · Journal of Documentation · 152
Web impact factors and search engine coverage
2000 · Mike Thelwall · Journal of Documentation · 98
Calculating Web impact factor for university websites of Pakistan
2015 · Arif Khan, Haroon Idrees · The Electronic Library · 95
New informetric aspects of the Internet: some reflections - many problems
2000 · L. Egghe · Journal of Information Science · 91
A comparison of sources of links for academic Web impact factor calculations
2002 · Mike Thelwall · Journal of Documentation · 84
The relationship between the WIFs or inlinks of Computer Science Departments in UK and their RAE ratings or research productivities in 2001
2003 · Xuemei Li, Mike Thelwall, et al. · Scientometrics · 68
Impact factors, and why they won't go away
2001 · Eugene Garfield · Nature · 62
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Results from a web impact factor crawler
2001 · Mike Thelwall · Journal of Documentation · 61
The web impact factor: a critical review
2006 · Alireza Noruzi · The Electronic Library · 60
A history of webometrics
2012 · Mike Thelwall · Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · 45
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Web use and peer interconnectivity metrics for academic web sites
2003 · M. Thelwall · Journal of Information Science · 35
A review of the development and application of the Web impact factor
2003 · Xuemei Li · Online Information Review · 34
Webometric analysis of Iranian universities of medical sciences
2009 · Farzaneh Aminpour, Payam Kabiri, et al. · Scientometrics · 33
Methodological Issues of Webometric Studies
2006 · Peter Ingwersen, Lennart Björneborn · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 31
Webometric Study of Private Universities in Bangladesh
2011 · Md. Anwarul Islam, Md. Saiful Alam · Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science · 30
Web Presence and Impact Factors for Middle-Eastern Countries
2006 · Alireza Noruzi · UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona) · 29
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Websites of universities in Tamil Nadu: a webometric study
2009 · R. Jeyshankar, B. Ramesh Babu · Annals of Library and Information Studies · 28
An analysis of backlink counts and Web Impact Factorsfor Chinese university websites
2004 · Junping Qiu, Jingquan Chen, et al. · Scientometrics · 28
Web impact factors for Iranian Universities
2005 · Alireza Noruzi · UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona) · 26
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The Performance of South African and Kenyan universities on the world wide web : a web link analysis
2007 · Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha, Dennis N. Ocholla · DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) · 25
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Citations and Links as a Measure of Effectiveness of Online LIS Journals
2005 · Alastair G. Smith · IFLA Journal · 25
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How much information do search engines disclose on the links to a web page? A longitudinal case study of the 'cybermetrics' home page
2002 · J. Bar-Ilan · Journal of Information Science · 23
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Citation count: 2,495
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