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Web visibility and informetrics

Web visibility and informetrics is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 5k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the quantitative analysis of web presence, hyperlink structures, and impact factors of academic institutions and research publications. It explores methods such as webometrics, hyperlink analysis, and social network analysis to understand the visibility, interconnectivity, and influence of academic content on the internet. The research also delves into the use of search engines, web traffic measurement, and information retrieval techniques for studying scholarly communication in the digital age.

  • Webometrics
  • Hyperlink Analysis
  • Academic Web Impact
  • Internet Research
  • Web Visibility
  • Scientific Communication
  • Search Engine Analysis
  • University Interlinking
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Information Retrieval
Research works
5k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
502
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-29%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Web visibility and informetrics

Which countries lead Web visibility and informetrics research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (67 and 52 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 67 works
  2. 2 China 52 works
  3. 3 United States 47 works
  4. 4 Spain 22 works
  5. 5 Mexico 21 works
  6. 6 Germany 19 works
  7. 7 Brazil 17 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 16 works
  9. 9 Iran 13 works
  10. 10 Russia 13 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

India: 23.3%China: 18.0%United States: 16.4%Spain: 7.7%6 others listed: 34.7%23%largest
India67 · 23.3%China52 · 18.0%United States47 · 16.4%Spain22 · 7.7%6 others listed100 · 34.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Web visibility and informetrics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México publishes the most Web visibility and informetrics research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Universitat Politècnica de València.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de MéxicoMexico 12 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 5 works
  3. 3 Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaSpain 4 works
  4. 4 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 4 works
  5. 5 Universidad de GranadaSpain 3 works
  6. 6 Lingaya's VidyapeethIndia 3 works
  7. 7 Indiana UniversityUnited States 3 works
  8. 8 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 2 works
  9. 9 Karnatak UniversityIndia 2 works
  10. 10 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 2 works

Who are the leading researchers in Web visibility and informetrics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Web visibility and informetrics include Francisco Herrera and Philip S. Yu.

  1. 1 Francisco Herrera Spain 141k citations
  2. 2 Philip S. Yu United States 141k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Web visibility and informetrics?

The most cited paper in Web visibility and informetrics is "Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping" (Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, 2009), with 21,265 citations. Next come "The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine" (16,170) and "The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a comparative analysis" (5,117).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman · Scientometrics Open access 30 Dec 2009 21,265
2 The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine Sergey Brin, Lawrence M. Page · Computer Networks and ISDN Systems Apr 1998 16,170
3 The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a comparative analysis Philippe Mongeon, Adèle Paul‐Hus · Scientometrics Open access 19 Oct 2015 5,117
4 The bibliometric analysis of scholarly production: How great is the impact? Ole Ellegaard, Johan Albert Wallin · Scientometrics Open access 27 Jul 2015 3,145
5 An approach for detecting, quantifying, and visualizing the evolution of a research field: A practical application to the Fuzzy Sets Theory field Manuel J. Cobo, Antonio Gabriel López-Herrera, Enrique Herrera‐Viedma et al. · Journal of Informetrics 4 Nov 2010 2,724
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Where is Web visibility and informetrics research done?

The largest centres of Web visibility and informetrics research in 2022-now are Toluca (Mexico), Beijing (China), Tehran (Iran) and Moscow (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TolucaMexico 12 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 11 works
  3. 3 TehranIran 7 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 6 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 5 works
  6. 6 New DelhiIndia 5 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 5 works
  8. 8 ValenciaSpain 5 works
  9. 9 Mexico CityMexico 5 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 4 works
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Where is the best place to study Web visibility and informetrics?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Universidad Autónoma del Estado de MéxicoMexico 5.04.8%196.8×12 -

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Web visibility and informetrics, country by country

Is Web visibility and informetrics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 29% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Web visibility and informetrics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0014% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Web visibility and informetrics0.0019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Web visibility and informetrics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Web visibility and informetrics11.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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