• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.55-67
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• 2020

Webometric research in the Russian library sector is just beginning to gain momentum. This article examines the experience of webometric research in libraries from the perspective of the global practice. In particular, it highlights a number of foreign works, which may have a special practical value for Russian libraries, and emphasizes important webometrics areas for libraries. The purpose of this study is to research the practical application of key performance indicators (KPIs) abroad and conduct a webometric analysis of the websites of some leading Siberian and Far Eastern scientific libraries based on selected KPIs. The study data were collected with SimilarWeb and other analytical tools. The study revealed that key traffic metrics are the basis of webometric research, and identified available promising groundwork for the purpose of their further testing. The shortcomings in the current state of the websites of the Siberian and Far Eastern scientific libraries were noted. Based on the obtained webometric traffic indicators, the ranking of the Siberian and Far Eastern scientific libraries was made.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.16-24
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• 2018

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the domain authority, number of webpages, links, and calculate the web impact factor of six public libraries of India which are fully funded by Ministry of Culture with the supervision of administration. The data for the study were collected from websites of concerned libraries with the help of a suitable search engine, Open Site Explorer. The study found that the highest domain and page authority was recorded by Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library and National Library, respectively. It also further revealed that excepting the two libraries, i.e., Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library and Delhi Public Library, the internal equity-passing links and total internal links of rest of the libraries is zero. National Library leads with maximum total links and total equity-passing links, also with the highest followed linking root domains, total linking root domains, and linking C blocks, and concludes with the web impact factor of Central Secretariat Library recording the maximum, followed by National Library and Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.5-23
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• 2018

There have been extensive studies done on webometrics, particularly on the impact of websites and the web impact factor. The present study analyzed the websites of ICAR organizations, according to the webometrics indicator. It examines and explores the 92 ICAR organizational websites in India and identifies a number of web pages and link pages, and calculates the Overall Web Impact Factor (WIF) and Absolute Web Impact Factor (WIF). In this study, all websites were analyzed and data extracted using Google search engine. It suggests that Web Impact Factors can be calculated as a way of comparing the attractiveness of web sites or domains on the Web.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.36-42
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• 2014

Previous studies of the Korean wave have focused mainly on fan clubs by taking an ethnographic approach in the context of countries in Southeast Asia and, in a minor extension, Europe. This study fills the gap in the literature by providing a social network analysis of Tweets in the context of Mexico. We used the Twitter API in order to collect Twitter comments with the hashtag #kpop from March to August 2012, analyzing them with a set of webometric methodologies. The results indicate that #kpop power Twitterians in Mexico were more likely to be related to the public television broadcast. The sent Tweets were usually related to their programs and promotion for Kpop artists. These Tweets tended to be positive, and according to URLs, not only Kpop but also Korean dramas had considerable influence on the Korean wave in Mexico.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.728-739
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• 2020

이 연구는 웹보메트릭 빅데이터를 활용하여 코로나바이러스 확진 국가(지역)들의 온라인 정보원의 다양성을 조사했다. 구체적으로 2020년 2월에 코로나바이러스 확진자가 발생한 28개국을 대상으로 웹 데이터를 수집한 결과, 호주, 캐나다, 이탈리아 등의 온라인 가시성이 높게 나타나면서 관련 정보를 가장 많이 생산하고 있었다. 국가별 검색건수(hit counts)와 정보채널의 역할을 하는 도메인(domain) 빈도와는 통계적으로 유의한 상관성이 있었다. 한편 데이터 수집도구인 bing.com의 점유률이 평소에도 높은 국가들을 제외하고 다시 검토한 결과, 당시 확진자 수가 많았던 일본, 중국, 싱가포르 등이 코로나바이러스와 관련된 웹데이터를 주도적으로 올리고 있었다. 온라인 정보원은 n-헬릭스를 활용하여 분류되었다. n-헬릭스는 대학-기업-정부의 3주체간 상호작용과 혁신을 강조하는 트리플헬릭스모델(Triple Helix Model)에 기반한 확장된 분석틀이다. 그 결과, 정부기관이 18.1%를 차지하면서 코로나바이러스 정보의 최대 공급자로 나타났다. 2원성 네트워크 분석결과를 보면 언론사, 대학병원, 공중보건에 특화된 조직 등도 코로나바이러스 연구와 방역 정보의 온라인 유통에 적극적이었다. 웹페이지에 포함된 단어들을 중심으로 내용분석을 해 보니 건강, 학교, 가족, 공공, 방안 등의 단어가 중심성이 높게 나타나 코로나바이러스로 인한 개인별 예방수칙뿐만 아니라 생활 불편과 업무장애로 인한 대처방안 등에 관심이 높다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.475-486
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• 2020

이 연구는 웹보메트릭스를 활용한 지역관광자원 발굴 및 뉴스 네트워크를 대구 수성구를 중심으로 분석한 연구이다. 데이터는 Bing, Naver 등 웹 데이터를 사용했으며, 네트워크 분석과 댓글 분석을 하였다. 연구문제는 총 세가지로 첫째, 대구 내부에서 수성구의 검색엔진 최적화 수준은 어떠한가? 둘째, 수성구 관광자원의 온라인 출현도는 어떠한가? 셋째, 높은 온라인 출현도를 보이는 관광자원의 뉴스 기사와 댓글은 어떤 내용이 주를 이루는가?이며 그 결과를 보면 첫째, 수성구는 검색엔진 최적화 수준이 대구 내부에서 하위권에 속하며 이는 수성구 관광을 언급한 자료들의 온라인 가시성이 미약한 수준임을 알 수 있다. 둘째, 수성구에서 온라인 출현도가 높은 관광자원들은 대부분 수성못 중심이다. 셋째, 수성못 언론 보도의 내용과 댓글을 살펴본 결과 수성못 교통문제와 열대야가 최대 관심사로 나타나, 관광기반시설에 대한 접근성 개선과 관광자원 개발이 요구된다. 이러한 분석결과는 수성구 관광자원 관련 정책의 개발 및 서비스 운영에 기여 할 수 있고 지역 경제에 대한 해답이 될 것이다.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.23-43
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• 2015

In most of the world, the current trend in information technology is for open data movement that promotes transparency and equal access. An opposite trend is observed in China, which has the world's largest Internet population. The country has implemented sophisticated cyber-infrastructure and practices under the name of The Golden Shield Project (commonly referred to as the Great Firewall) to limit access to popular international web services and to filter traffic containing 'undesirable' political content. Increasingly, tech-savvy Chinese bypass this firewall and use Twitter to share knowledge on censorship circumvention and encryption to collectively troubleshoot firewall evasion methods, and even mobilize actions that border on activism. Using a mixed mythological approach, the current study addresses such networked knowledge sharing among citizens in a restricted web ecosystem. On the theoretical front, this study uses webometric approaches to understand change agents and positive deviant in the diffusion of censorship circumvention technology. On policy-level, the study provides insights for Internet regulators and digital rights groups to help best utilize communication networks of positive deviants to counter Internet control.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.41-52
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• 2018

Digital Library websites plays an important role in dissemination of information of the institution and library resources. It acts as a trustworthy mirror of the institute. To evaluate the library website performance webometrics tools and indicators are required. The aim of the present research is study the webometrics of Digital Libraries of Iranian Universities of Medical Sciences on the Web to determine the amount of the visibility a website and web pages. The URL and link of 42 digital library website is obtained directly by visiting the university's website. To extract the number of indexed web pages (size), rich files have used the Google search engine Also, to extract the number of scientific resources retrieved have used the Google Scholar search engine. To calculate and obtain the number of links received have used the MOZ search engine. Generally, the results indicated that the website of Iranian digital libraries did not have a good performance in term of webometric indexes, and none of them were not rated at all indexes, only some of the websites mentioned in one or two indicators.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.85-107
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• 2021

Wildfires have become increasingly common and intense in South Korea because of climate change, but few have recognized the catastrophic level of the problem. Given the significant impact of wildfires, emergency management stakeholders must have effective risk communication structures for rapidly responding to such phenomena and overcoming geographical difficulties. Despite the country spending billions of dollars to build a big databased early warning system, risk communication flow during the 2017 Gangneung wildfire was ineffective, thereby causing substantial economic, social, and environmental losses. To examine the patterns of information exchange in South Korea's risk communication networks and their structural characteristics during the wildfire, we conducted semantic and network analyses of real-time data collected from social media. The results showed that the inefficient flow of risk information prevented emergency responders from adequately assessing the emergency and protecting the population. This study provides new insights into effective risk communication responses to catastrophic events and methods of research on webometric approaches to emergency management.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.75-83
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• 2021

Mendeley reader count is good evidence of the early impact of scientific output since it appears before citations. This paper aims to scope and compare Mendeley readers of Library and Information Science (LIS) articles published from India and China. Mendeley readership data for the highly cited 1,000 articles in Web of Science are extracted using Webometric Analyst for both countries and are analysed using Excel and SPSS. The findings reveal that LIS articles that are published from China got more readers as compared to LIS articles published from India with an excess of 97 readers per paper on Mendeley. The occupational status of readers tells that PhD students are the top readers for both the countries' publications, followed by masters students. Discipline-wise readership shows that readers were spread across 29 different fields, with the highest readers from business, management and accounting, followed by computer science for both countries' publications. Location-wise readership depicts that the top engaged readers are from the United States for both the countries' publications. Finally, the study reports a positive association between citations and Mendeley bookmarks, justifying that Mendeley readership can be used to measure the early research impact of LIS scholarship in both countries.