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Webometric Analyst

Webometric Analyst is a free Windows-based program for altmetrics, citation analysis, social web analysis and webometrics, including link analysis. It downloads data from the web through APIs or direct downloading and includes a wide range of processing options. This website contains brief usage instructions for the most popular features but many more options are available in the menus.

Altmetrics and Citation Analysis

• Altmetric / alternative indicator data sources: Get data from Mendeley (reference manager), Altmetric.com (a range of altmetrics), Google Books, and WorldCat.
• Web indicators: syllabus mention searches, patent citation searches, presentation citation searches, grey literature searches, web citation and URL citation searches from the general web.
• Indicator formulae: Citation, web, Mendeley, Altmetric.com and alternative indicator calculations for research evaluation.
• Free citation databases: Dimensions API queries; Microsoft Academic searches and Microsoft Academic API key sign up instructions.

Social Web Analysis

• Social web data sources: YouTube [see also network example], Twitter [see also networks, Twitter images, Tumblr images and timelines] and Flickr.
• Downloading and counting tweeted images or Tumblr images. Downloading Google Image Search images.

Link Analysis and Webometrics

For automatic Web searches in Webometric Analyst, please sign up for a Bing Cognitive Services v7 key first. Webometric Analyst uses URL citations or title mentions instead of hyperlink searches for network diagrams, link impact reports, and web environment networks. See also the discussion of link analysis in Webometric Analyst.

• Web Impact Reports of the number of times each of a set of words, phrases or documents have been mentioned online [What's this?]
• Link (cite) Impact Reports of the number of web pages and web sites that cite one or more web sites or pages [What's this?]
• Network diagrams of the (cite) links between a collection of web sites [What's this?] or Twitter conversations, or YouTube commenters.
• Web Environment Networks of an individual web site [what's this?] [see examples]
• Google custom search sign up.

Link Analysis: See the following papers for a comparison of link counting methods:

• Thelwall, M. & Sud, P. (2011). A comparison of methods for collecting web citation data for academic organisations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(8), 1488–1497.
• Thelwall, M., Sud, P., & Wilkinson, D. (2012). Link and co-inlink network diagrams with URL citations or title mentions. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(4),805-816.
• Thelwall, M., & Sud, P. (2012). Webometric research with the Bing Search API 2.0. Journal of Informetrics, 6(1), 44-52.
• See also a link analysis report example for Ontario Health Promotion.

Extra documentation

1. Frequently Asked Questions
2. Installation
3. Comparing search markets or Using multiple search markets for a single search
4. The network drawing component
5. Spam removal from link results

The Webometric Analyst blog has more information and bug reports. The blog instructions are behind the latest version of Webometric Analyst - some of the screen shots will be different.

LexiURL Searcher (before April, 2011)

The original LexiURL Searcher was similar to Webometric Analyst but used hyperlink data from the Yahoo! Search API, which Yahoo! discontinued in April 2011. Webometric Analyst 1.0 used IP-based access to Bing but the Bing API changed in 2012 and again in 2016 and 2017.