Sitation

The term Sitation is used in webometry as a synonym for hyperlinks on the Internet. It is used to express the structural comparability of links (i.e. references on the Internet) and citations (i.e. references in scientific publications; English: citation ), which are among the central data sources in bibliometrics .

Ronald Rousseau took over the name sitation from Gary McKiernan in 1997 and made it temporary popular in webometric publications. The idea behind this was to be able to transfer bibliometric methods such as citation analysis to the World Wide Web . However, the analogy of hyperlinks and citations was controversial from the start, as the web has different properties and contains a wider variety of documents than the citation databases used exclusively in scientific journals used in bibliometrics .

This is why the term is now rarely used within webometry; it is quite uncommon outside of specialist science.

literature

• Camille Prime, Elise Bassecoulard and Michel Zitt (2002): Co-citations and co-sitations: A cautionary view on an analogy. In: Scientometrics , Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 291-308
• Ronald Rousseau (1997): Sitations: an exploratory study. In: Cybermetrics 1 (1997) Issue 1, paper 1
• Mike Thelwall (2004): Link Analysis: An Information Science Approach . Elsevier