Invoked on the Web

Invoked on the Web

Where, how, and why are scholars invoked on the World Wide Web? An inductively derived typology was used to capture genres of invocation. Comparative data were gathered using 5 commercial search engines. It is argued that the Web fosters new modalities of scholarly communication. Different categorie...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 1998-12, Vol.49 (14), p.1319
Hauptverfasser: Cronin, Blaise, Snyder, Herbert W, Rosenbaum, Howard, Martinson, Anna, Callahan, Ewa
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Academic discourse
Bibliometrics
Communication
Information
Internet
Professional relationships
Scholarly communication
Scholars
Search engines
Searches
Studies
World Wide Web
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Zusammenfassung:Where, how, and why are scholars invoked on the World Wide Web? An inductively derived typology was used to capture genres of invocation. Comparative data were gathered using 5 commercial search engines. It is argued that the Web fosters new modalities of scholarly communication. Different categories of invocation are identified and analyzed in terms of their potential to inform sociometric and bibliometric analyses of academic interaction.
ISSN:2330-1635
2330-1643