Conceptual Approach to Webometrics: An Exploratory Study

Paper reviews the development of webometrics researches conducted by scholars and depicts the origin of webometrics from bibliometrics. Relationship between metrics branches such as bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics, webometrics and cybermetrics has been established and discussed the boundary of each. Webometrics techniques like web link structure analysis, web page content analysis, web usage analysis, and web technology analysis elaborated. Further webometric terminology and diagrams used for understanding of webometrics terms has been explained thoroughly.