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One of the programs featured in the book, LexiURL Searcher, has been replaced by Webometric Analyst, which is very similar.
The book was published in April, 2009
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Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences
This is the web site of the book:.
Thelwall, M. (2009). Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences. San Rafael, CA: Morgan & Claypool (Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services, 2009, Vol. 1, No. 1).
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Related resources
- Link Analysis: An Information Science Approach (chapter 3)
- Webometric Analyst - replacement for LexiURL Searcher link analysis and automatic search query submission software (chapter 5)
- SocSciBot web crawler, link analyser and text analysis (chapter 6)
- SocSciBot Network online documentation (chapters 5, 6)
- Some information about web issue analysis (section 9.3)
- Home page of Mike Thelwall, the book's author
- Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group
Reviews of the book:
- Mahmoud Sharief. Cybrarians Journal, Vol 20, (Sep. 2009). Available at:
http://journal.cybrarians.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=490 (In Arabic) - Professor Elena Maceviciute. Information Research 12(1), (March 2009). Available at: http://informationr.net/ir/reviews/revs364.html
- M. Bielikova, Computing Reviews.
Apology to information scientists: This book is written to introduce particular webometrics techniques to social scientists, building on the work of the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group in this direction for the past few years. As a result it downplays most webometric research produced outside of Wolverhampton. It is not the intention of the book to minimise others' work, just to get a new audience for webometrics.