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Webometric Analyst replaces hyperlink searches with URL Citation searches (see documentation) and (optionally) with title mention searches. See an evaluation of title searches and URL citation searches.
Webometric Analyst includes only Bing searches (Yahoo and Google both withdrawn)
Webometric Analyst uses the Bing API for its results, and these became variables in 2012 so Webometric Analyst's results using this may change from week to week.
Webometric Analyst can process logical OR searches by submitting multiple queries and combining the results.
Webometric Analyst can run large-scale YouTube searches.
The book Introduction to Webometrics is useful for Webometric Analyst: most of the content about LexiURL Searcher works for Webometric Analyst too.
Webometric Analyst is a resource in the Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources.
Webometric Analyst Web Analysis Software
NEWS: The original Webometric Analyst from April 2011 no longer works for web searches due to changes in Bing's data provision. Please download the updated 6 November 2011 version from this web site. The new version has the same features but is slower and gets less results from Bing than the live version of Bing. The new version gets an predictable maximum number of results per query (it has varied between just 40 and 750 during 2012), but has an unlimited number of queries per day. We are not sure if this variation will continue indefinitely so the advice is to check the maximum results you are getting from Webometric Analyst and if it is low then wait a few weeks and try again.
Yahoo withdrew all support for automatic searches in April 2011 and so Webometric Analyst now uses only Bing and uses URL citations or title mentions instead of hyperlink searches - but all the original functions are still available (e.g., network diagrams, link impact reports, web environment networks).
Webometric Analyst, formerly known as LexiURL Searcher, automatically analyses the impact of collections of documents or web sites, and creates network diagrams of collections of web sites. It automatically submits queries to search engines and process the results. For an overview, see Introduction to Webometric Analyst. See also the following paper for a comparison of link counting methods
- Thelwall, M. & Sud, P. (2011). A comparison of methods for collecting web citation data for academic organisations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(8), 1488–1497.
- Thelwall, M., Sud, P., & Wilkinson, D. (in press). Link and co-inlink network diagrams with URL citations or title mentions. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
- Thelwall, M., & Sud, P. (2012). Webometric research with the Bing Search API 2.0. Journal of Informetrics, 6(1), 44-52.
The main features of Webometric Analyst are:
- A Web Impact Report of the number of times each of a set of words, phrases or documents have been mentioned online [What's this?]
- A Link (cite) Impact Report of the number of web pages and web sites that cite one or more web sites or web pages [What's this?]
- A network diagram of the (cite) links between a collection of web sites [What's this?] *New - automatically generated key for the diagram plus options to calculate centrality and density statistics.
- A Web Environment Network of an individual web site [what's this?] [see examples]
- Facilities to get data from YouTube [see also network example], Technorati (blog data), and Flickr (limited) as well as a simple plagiarism detection feature.
** Download the free Webometric Analyst software. **
Online Documentation
- Installation instructions
- Basic Webometric Analyst use instructions with wizards
- Standard Webometric Analyst use instructions with the classic interface
- Introductory booklet about Webometric Analyst: Gives an overview but not specific instructions.
- Advanced Webometric Analyst use instructions
- YouTube search instructions
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Introduction in Korean
See the Webometric Analyst blog for more information and to report bugs. Note that these instructions are slightly behind the latest version of Webometric Analyst - some of the screen shots will be different.
LexiURL Searcher Korean Manual from Han Woo Park, which mostly works for Webometric Analyst.
See also a link analysis repor example, for Ontario Health Promotion.
Original LexiURL Searcher (before April, 2011)
The original LexiURL Searcher was similar to Webometric Analyst but relied heavily upon hyperlink data from Yahoo Search API, a service that Yahoo discontinued in April 2011.