The present study examines the reliability of web citations in scholarly journals of Library and ... more The present study examines the reliability of web citations in scholarly journals of Library and Information Science and Communication and Media Studies. The journals were selected based on their high impact factor published between 2008 and 2017. A total 5,55,428 references were extracted, out of which 1,02,718 had web citations. The research findings indicated that there more number of URLs in CMS journal articles than in LIS journal articles. While examining the characteristic features of the URLs cited, it was found that .html files and organizational (.org) top-level domain were the most cited in both the disciplines. Moreover, URLs with path depth 2 and character length 41-50 were frequently cited in both the disciplines. The display and redirect URLs associated with the characteristic features are also determined in this study.
PEARL - A Journal of Library and Information Science, 2020
The present study examines the availability of web citations in scholarly journals of Library and... more The present study examines the availability of web citations in scholarly journals of Library and Information Science. The journals were selected based on their high impact factor published between 2008 and 2017. A PHP script was used to test the Uniform Resource Locators for their availability. A total of 7986 articles were downloaded and 3,24,636 references were extracted. A total of 51,839 URLs were checked for their availability. Further the lexical features of URLs like file extension, path depth, character length and top-level domain was determined. The research findings indicated that the percentage of web citations in articles has been continuously increased from 2008 to 2017. The result of the accessibility check showed that almost 76.90% of URLs were accessible and the remaining 23.
The present paper explores the accessibility and characteristics of web citations in the Journal ... more The present paper explores the accessibility and characteristics of web citations in the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (JCMC) during 2008-17. A total of 337 articles from JCMC were downloaded and 17946 references extracted. Out of 4548 web citations, DOIs were found in 2360 references, 2178 references contained URLs and 10 references contained arXiv, WOS article identifier, etc. It was found that 3861 web citations were accessible and the remaining 687 web citations were missing. The study also investigated the characteristic features of display and destination URLs, like the path depth, URL length, file format and top-level domain.
International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology, 2020
The present study examines the permanence of URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) in the journal “Sci... more The present study examines the permanence of URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) in the journal “Scientometrics” spanning a period of 10 years (2008-2017). It is also intended to determine the characteristic features of the URLs. A total of 2575 articles were downloaded and 96,137 references were extracted. A total of 14,261 URLs were checked for their availability. A PHP script was used to check the availability and document the error of URLs. Further, the characteristics of URLs like file extension, path depth, character length and the top-level domain were determined. The research findings indicated that out of 14,261 web-references, 6125 references contained URLs, DOIs were found in 7906 references and 230 references contained arXiv and WOS identifiers. The DOIs and arXiv identifiers were resolved to URLs for testing. It was found that 13,086 URLs were accessible and the remaining 1175 URLs were missing. The majority of errors were due to HTTP 404 error code (Not found error). The findings of the study will be helpful to authors, publishers and editorial staff to ensure that web references are accessible in the future.
Indian Journal of Library and Information Science, 2020
The present study examines the availability and recovery of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) in s... more The present study examines the availability and recovery of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) in scholarly Library and Information Science journals selected based on their high impact factor published between 2008 and 2017. A total of 4966 articles were downloaded and 208506 references were extracted. A PHP script was used to check 28108 URLs and extract the lexical features like path depth, character length and top-level domain. The research findings indicated that out of 28108 URL references, 15746 references contained URLs, DOIs were found in 11881 references and 481 references contained arXiv identifier/WOS article identifier. It was found that 25178 URLs were accessible and the remaining 2930 URL references were missing. The majority of errors were due to HTTP 404 error code (Not found error). The study also tried to recover the inaccessible URLs through Time Travel. Almost 60.92% of inaccessible URLs were archived in various web archives. The findings of the study will be helpful to authors, publishers and editorial staff to ensure that the URLs will be accessible in future
Asian Journal of Information Science and Technology, 2020
The present study examines the availability and recovery of web references cited in scholarly jou... more The present study examines the availability and recovery of web references cited in scholarly journals selected based on their high impact factor published between 2008 and 2017. A PHP script was used to crawl the Uniform Resource Locators (URL) collected from the references. A total of 5720 articles were downloaded and 237418 references were extracted. A total of 33512 URLs were checked for their availability. Further the lexical features of URLs like file extension, path depth, character length and top-level domain was determined. The research findings indicated that out of 33512 web references, 20218 contained URLs, DOIs were found in 12799 references and 495 references contained arXiv or WOS identifier. It was found that 29760 URLs were accessible and the remaining 3752 URLs were missing. Most errors were due to HTTP 404 error code (Not found error). The study also tried to recover the inaccessible URLs through Time Travel. Almost 60.55% of inaccessible URLs were archived in various web archives. The findings of the study will be helpful to authors, publishers, and editorial staff to ensure that web references will be accessible in future.
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and document the error of URLs. Further, the characteristics of URLs like file extension, path depth, character length and the top-level domain were determined. The research findings indicated that out of 14,261 web-references, 6125 references contained URLs, DOIs were found in 7906 references and 230 references contained arXiv and WOS identifiers. The DOIs and arXiv identifiers were resolved to URLs for
testing. It was found that 13,086 URLs were accessible and the remaining 1175 URLs were missing. The majority of errors were due to HTTP 404 error code (Not found error). The findings of the study will be helpful to authors, publishers and editorial staff to ensure that web references are accessible in the future.