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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/4214| Title: | Developing Internet S&T Indicators for Science Policy and Decision-Making |
| Keywords: | Indicators Citation analysis Internet Sitations Cybermetrics CSIC Endogamy Impact |
| Description: | 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. Peer reviewed |
| URI: | http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/4214 |
| Other Identifiers: | Aguillo, Isidro F. and Pareja, Victor M. (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), 4-6 June 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10261/4214 |
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