Semantometrics is a tool for evaluating research. It is functionally an extension of tools such as
bibliometrics
Bibliometrics is the use of statistical methods to analyse books, articles and other publications, especially in regard with scientific contents. Bibliometric methods are frequently used in the field of library and information science. Biblio ...
,
webometrics
The science of webometrics (also cybermetrics) tries to measure the World Wide Web to get knowledge about the number and types of hyperlinks, structure of the World Wide Web and using patterns. According to Björneborn and Ingwersen, the definiti ...
, and
altmetrics, but instead of just evaluating citations – which entails relying on outside evidence – it uses a
semantic
Semantics (from grc, σημαντικός ''sēmantikós'', "significant") is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics and comput ...
evaluation of the full text of the research paper being evaluated.
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References
External links
Python toolset
by Digital Humanities Lab of Utrecht University]
Library science
Information science
Computational linguistics
Bibliometrics
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