David Stuart is an independent information professional, Bibliometrics Officer at the University of St Andrews and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton. He has published widely in in peer-reviewed academic journals and professional journals on information science, metrics, and semantic web technologies and is author of a number of books, including Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals (2016), Facilitating Access to the Web of Data (2011) and Practical Data Science for Information Professionals (2020).

• 1 IntroductionMetricsIndicatorsWeb metrics and Ranganathan’s laws of library scienceWeb metrics for the library and information professionalResponsible metricsThe aim of this bookThe structure of the rest of this book2 Bibliometrics, Altmetrics, Web metrics, and WebometricsIntroductionWeb metricsInformation science metricsWeb analyticsRelational and evaluative metricsValidating the resultsConclusion3 Data Collection ToolsIntroductionThe anatomy of a URL, web links and the structure of the webSearch engines 1.0Web crawlersSearch enginesPost Search Engine 2.0: fragmentationConclusion4 Evaluating Web ImpactIntroductionWebsitesBlogsWikisInternal v. External MetricsInternal metricsExternal metricsA systematic approach to content analysisConclusion5 Evaluating Social Media ImpactIntroductionAspects of social network sitesTypology of social network sitesThe most popular social media servicesSentiment analysisConclusion**6 Relational Web Metrics and Social Network **AnalysisIntroductionSocial network analysis methodsNode centralityCluster identificationStatistical properties of the graphTopic modellingSources for relational network analysisTwo R ExamplesConclusion7 Web BibliometricsIntroductionMore bibliographic itemsNew bibliographic sourcesFull text analysisGreater ContextConclusion8 Web Metrics for Data and CodeIntroductionThe web of dataFrom data documents……to a semantic web?The Importance of CodeGitHub StatisticsA Brief Exploration of Code-metrics with R Conclusion9 The Future of Web Metrics and the Library and Information ProfessionalIntroductionHow far we have comeThe future of web metricsThe future of the library and information professional and web metrics

The book begins with an overview of the metrics landscape. It covers metrics, indicators, standards, definitions and terminology. It then goes on to explore bibliometrics, altmetrics and web bibliometrics, which are familiar to many library and information professionals. Much of the content can be technical but the author does break it down where appropriate.