Informetric Theories and Methods for Exploring the Internet: An Analytical Survey of Recent Research Literature.
Judit Bar‐Ilan, Bluma C. Peritz · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 2002
becoming one of our main information sources.Systematic evaluation and analysis can help us understand how this medium works, grows, and changes, and how it influences our lives and research.New approaches in infonnetrics can provide an appropriate means towards achieving the above goals, and towards establishing a sound theory.This paper presents a selective review of research based on the Internet, using bibliometric and informetric methods and tools.Some of these studies clearly show the applicability of bibliometric laws to the Internet, while others establish new definitions and methods based on the respective definitions for printed sources.Both informetrics and Internet research can gain from these additional methods.