Los sitios Web de centros de investigación biosanitaria de Castilla y León. Un análisis cibermétrico

Fernando Sánchez Pita; José Luis  Alonso Berrocal

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2013-982

Authors

Fernando Sánchez Pita University of Salamanca https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3857-5224
José Luis Alonso Berrocal University of Salamanca http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7470-0091

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2013-982

Keywords:

Cybermetrics, Internet, Web analysis, Institutional communication.

Abstract

Institutional websites are sources of content and spaces that bring together users and institutions with common interests and objectives. This article offers an analysis of this type of digital resources from a structural perspective that goes beyond their design or the quality of their content. Methods. To this end, this article offers a social network analysis, supported by cybermetrics, of the structure of the websites of the biomedical research centres of Castile and León. This study presents the different properties of the network structures and the topological measures that allow the identification of the most important pages of each website according to the flows of information, which influences the visibility of the contents that these websites want to disseminate. Results. The results indicate that there are certain areas that can be improved in the structure of the sample of websites. In particular, there the study detected a lack of information links and homepages that had little relevance in comparison to the rest of the website. Conclusions. Finally, after the evaluation of results, this study revealed deficiencies in the structure of the sample of websites, which will affect their objectives and will complicate the dissemination of contents and their visibility.

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Author Biographies

Fernando Sánchez Pita, University of Salamanca

Fernando Sánchez Pita holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication and a diploma in Library Science and Documentation from the University of Salamanca. He also holds a Master's Degree in Social Studies of Science and Technology and a Master's Degree in Digital Information Systems, both from the University of Salamanca. He is currently a doctoral student at the Institute for the Study of Science and Technology (ECYT) of the University of Salamanca, where he has a research training contract and is also the professor responsible for the subject "Institutional Communication of Science and Technology", attached to the Department of Sociology and Communication of the University of Salamanca, and actively participates in projects related to education and new technologies, having experience as a trainer of trainers. His main lines of research are institutional communication and scientific communication.

José Luis Alonso Berrocal, University of Salamanca

Prof. Dr. D. José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Univ. De Salamanca, Department of Computer Science and Automation, teaches in the degree in Information and Documentation, as well as in the Master in Intelligent Systems (Department of Computer Science and Automation) and in the Master in Social Studies of Science and Technology (University Institute for Science and Technology Studies).

He is a member of the University Institute for Science and Technology Studies and is part of the research group recognized by the University of Salamanca ELECTRA (Electronic edition and reading, automated transfer and retrieval of information).

His field of research is Information Retrieval on the web and Cybermetrics, in which he has published numerous articles and monographs. He has participated in numerous specialized international conferences.

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