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Finding Information on the World Wide Web: The Retrieval Effectiveness of Search Engines.
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Pathak, Praveen; Gordon, Michael – Information Processing & Management, 1999
Describes a study that examined the effectiveness of eight search engines for the World Wide Web. Calculated traditional information-retrieval measures of recall and precision at varying numbers of retrieved documents to use as the bases for statistical comparisons of retrieval effectiveness. Also examined the overlap between search engines.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Information Retrieval, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Statistical Analysis
Measuring the Quality of Publications: New Methodology and Case Study.
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Kleijnen, Jack P. C.; Van Groenendaal, Willem – Information Processing & Management, 2000
Proposes a methodology using citations to measure the quality of journals, proceedings, and book publishers. Explains the use of statistical sampling, bootstrapping, and classification that results in ranked lists of journals, proceedings, and publishers, as evidenced in a case study of the information systems field. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citations (References), Classification, Conference Proceedings