Russia’s Academic Institutes as Mirrored by Webometrics
D. V. Kosyakova1, A. E. Gus’kovb2, and E. S. Bykhovtsevb3, *
Translated by B. Alekseev
a Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Brach, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
b State Public Scientific Technological Library, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Correspondence to: e-mail: 1kosykovDV@ipgg.sbras.ru; 2Guskov@spsl.nsc.ru; 3gor2991@ya.ru
*Denis Viktorovich Kosyakov is Deputy Director for information technologies of the Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics (IPGG), RAS Siberian Branch (SB). Andrei Evgen’evich Gus’kov, Cand. Sci. (Eng.), is Director of the State Public Scientific Technological Library (SPSTL), RAS SB. Egor Sergeevich Bykhovtsev is a 2nd-category librarian of the SPSTL, RAS SB.
Received 16 October, 2015
Abstract—How adequately and fully do the indicators used in webometric research help assess the quality and size of scientific websites? This question is asked by the authors of this article. They analyze the sites of Russian academic institutes and their indicators. The degree of value stability of webometric indicators is demonstrated; examples of their discrepancy with assumed meanings are given; and alternative interpretations are offered. This research resulted in a monthly replenished free-for-all database of webometric indicators of academic sites, hosted at http://webometrix.ru, which could become a tool for planning measures to improve the representation of scientific organizations on the Internet and a basis for generating webometric site rankings.
Keywords: webometrics, site ranking, scientific organizations, impact, open access, Google Scholar, sites.
DOI: 10.1134/S1019331616050063