... of tweets (p-value=0.398), total tweets (p-value=0.959), citations (p-value=0.967) and followers (p-value=0.409) are similar to a random sample. Data were obtained during April 2016. Webometrics Twitter Altmetrics Citation Plum analytics Research journals Twitter has...

...Mike Thelwall; Kayvan Kousha; Adam Dinsmore; Kevin Dolby Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential of altmetric and webometric indicators to aid with funding agencies’ evaluations of their funding schemes. Design/methodology/approach – This paper analyses a range...

... widely linked and exposed to media messages than their followers. In a similar vein, An et al. (2011) found that friends who follow particular media sources influence other friends’ media exposure on Twitter. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Webometrics Korea Twitter...

.../approach – A webometrics analysis of the top 200 European universities (as ranked in the Ranking web of World Universities) was carried out by a manual query for each official URL identified by using the Google search engine (April 2012). A correlation analysis between visibility and file format page...

... is corroborated by comparison with other rankings of a webometric or scientometric nature. Research limitations/implications – Studies of this type cannot be undertaken again, at least not from the web link perspective, as Yahoo!, Google and Bing have since blocked the webcrawlers that attempt to carry out...

... Information consumption Webometrics Web sites Web site design The study of the usage that a web surfer makes of a website, the pages that they visit and how they behave is one of the most important questions that the online marketing sector needs to answer in order to fulfil customer demands (Lee...

...David Minguillo; Mike Thelwall Purpose This study aims to introduce a method based on link analysis to investigate the structure of the R&D support infrastructure associated with science parks in order to determine whether this webometric approach gives plausible results. Design/methodology...

...Mike Thelwall Purpose Link analysis is an established topic within webometrics. It normally uses counts of links between sets of web sites or to sets of web sites. These link counts are derived from web crawlers or commercial search engines with the latter being the only alternative for some...