Web Citation Analysis &Efficiency of Internet Archives in selected Civil Engineering journal: A case study

Shanthakumari K; Keshava -; Keshava -

Shanthakumari K Assistant Librarian BMS School of Architecture Research Scholar Department of Studies & Research in Library & Information Science Tumkur University, Tumkur
Keshava - Professor Department of Studies & Research in Library & Information Science Tumkur University, Tumkur
Keshava - Professor Department of Studies & Research in Library & Information Science Tumkur University, Tumkur

Abstract

The study aimed to find the internet archiveâ€™s efficiency and investigate the persistence and decay of URLs cited in articles from the â€œJournal of Composites for Constructionâ€ over a ten-year period (2013-2022). 23,725 citations from 867 articles were analysed, of which 7,843 (31.74%) were URLs. The main findings include persistence. Decay of URLs: 64.16% of the web citations were found to have vanished or become inaccessible. The main error was that the Error 404 Page was not found, accounting for 39.12% of the vanished URLs, followed by Error 403 at 35.30%. It states that the domain analysis of vanished URLs showed the .org (85.10%), and .com (14.71%). domains Accessibility of Citations extracted from scholarly articles excluding editorials and were verified. The study focused on one journal; hence, the generalizations of the findings are limited to â€œJournal of Composites for Constructionâ€. The timeframe was restricted to only ten years, which may not capture long-term URL persistence and decay trends.

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