One of the major features of the World Wide Web is the capability to create links between pages. These links are often viewed as analogues of citations in scientific publications (e.g. ROUSSEAU, 1997; BJORNEBORN & INGWERSEN, 2001; CRONIN, 2001). Links can lead to a different site or may lead to a page in the same site. Links for which the source and the target of the page are within the same site or domain are called self-links. Instead of counting self-links, we count self-sitations - the number of pages on the site having a link or links pointing to the same site. The difference between self-links and self-sitations is that for self-sitations a page with several self-links is counted with multiplicity one. The reason for counting self-sitations instead of self-links is technical: commercial search engines report the number of pages with self-links and not the number of self-links. The term-sitation has been coined by ROUSSEAU (1997). In this paper we develop the measures self-linking and self-linked, which correspond to the classical measures for journals : self-citing and self-cited. We calculate these rates for a number of academic institutions on the Web. Self-links seems to be more problematic than self-citations (of authors in scientific publications), because self-links are often inserted for navigational purposes.
Defining Self-links Based on Web Passage
The provided passage discusses features of the World Wide Web, specifically focusing on the concept of links between web pages.
The passage defines self-links precisely. According to the text:
- "Links for which the source and the target of the page are within the same site or domain are called self-links."
This means a self-link connects two pages that belong to the same website or internet domain.
Analyzing the Options
Let's evaluate the given options based on the passage's definition:
- Option 1: Links between two websites. - This describes external links, not self-links.
- Option 2: Links between two authors. - Links connect web pages or resources, not authors directly.
- Option 3: Links between source and the target of the page within the same site or domain. - This accurately matches the definition provided in the passage.
- Option 4: Links between two articles written by two different authors. - Similar to option 2, this focuses incorrectly on authors and articles rather than the location of the link within a domain.
Therefore, the correct definition of self-links, as presented in the passage, is found in Option 3.
Important Questions from Metric Studies in LIS
Match the List I with List II:
List I
Metric StudiesList II
Coined bya Scientometrics I Nacke b Informetrics II Nalimov and Mulchenko c Webometrics III Priem et.all. d Altmetrics IV Almind and Ingwerson
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:- Bibliographic coupling is a technique of :
- Bibliographic Coupling' was first advocated by
- Commercial search engines report
- Self-linking and self-linked measures calculate their rates for
