Webometrics is a scientific discipline that studies the quantitative aspects of information sources and their use. In other words, webometrics try to measure the World Wide Web, analyses technology usage and allows us a simple content analysis. As Figure 1 shows, webometrics is affected by many scientific disciplines:
- Bibliometrics – is the quantitative analysis of documents in scientific communication; the documents reflect the state of scientific knowledge.
- Cybermetrics – is the quantitative research of information sources, structures and technologies on the Internet; a study of discussion groups, email communication, etc.
- Informetrics – is focused on the information stream in networks and demonstrates a variety of relations between them based on mathematical and statistical methods.
- Scientometrics – is focused on evaluating the efficiency of scientific research or individual researchers by citation counts.
