Webometrics, the quantitative study of the Web and Web related phenomena, is a rapidly developing area of information science. It owes its intellectual heritage to informetrics which is a more mature area of research with decades of history. Informetrics is the study of the quantitative aspects of information processes, including the production, dissemination and use of information regardless of its form or origin. It is related to bibliometrics, which studies the quantitative aspects of recorded information, and scientometrics, which studies the quantitative aspects of science. FIMS faculty members and PhD students have conducted extensive research and published papers in this area.
Topics associated with the cluster include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Evaluation of Web search engines
- Web hyperlink analysis
- Web server log analysis
- Web traffic analysis
- Web content analysis
- Informetric laws
- Citation analysis (both traditional and Web citation analysis)
- Modeling of information systems
The following faculty members have research interests in this area (faculty member's program affiliation indicated in parentheses):
Ajiferuke (LIS) , Vaughan (LIS) .
[04/15/2010]