Scientometrics
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Volume 93: Issue 1
Web visibility of scholars in media and communication journals
Authors:
Chung Joo Chung Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, Kyungpook National University, Taegu, South Korea; cjchung@knu.ac.kr

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Han Woo Park Department of Media and Information, WCU Webometrics Institute, YeungNam University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk, South Korea

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Pages:
207–215
Online Publication Date:
30 Mar 2012
Publication Date:
01 Oct 2012
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0707-8
Keywords:
Web visibility; Webometrics; Scientometrics; Media and communication science
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Abstract

This paper examines the Web visibility of researchers in the field of communication. First, we measured the Web visibility of authors who have recently published their research in communication journals contained in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) provided by the Web of Science. Second, we identified a subset of authors based on their publication outlets and summarize those researchers with the highest Web presence. Lastly, we determined the factors affecting their Web visibility by using a set of national and linguistic variables of the individual researchers. Web data were collected by using a Bing.com advanced search tool based on the API. Web presence is defined as the number of Web (co-) mentions of each researcher. We identified the most solely-visible scholars in the entire communication webosphere and scholars with the most networked visibility based on co-mentions. There is a weak but statistically significant correlation between researchers’ Web visibility and their SSCI publication counts. Further, US-based and/or English-speaking scholars were more noticeable than others on cyberspace.

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Scientometrics
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