La Web ha experimentado un enorme desarrollo en los últimos 20 años. La Webmetría se presenta como una nueva disciplina que pretende estudiar desde un punto de vista cuantitativo este nuevo canal de comunicación mediante la adaptación y aplicación de técnicas bibliométricas. Este...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to recommend the use of internet data for social sciences with a special focus on human resources issues. It discusses the potentials and challenges of internet data for social sciences. The authors present a selection of the relevant literature to...

Purpose – The study seeks to apply Web co‐word analysis to the Chinese business environment to test the feasibility of the method there. Design/methodology/approach – The authors selected a group of companies in two Chinese industries, collected co‐word data for the companies, analyzed...

Fellows of the Journal of Econometrics are invited to publish personal opinions regarding the field of econometrics in that journal. This paper is a statement of my personal opinion about the potential role of the World Wide Web in improving data quality and availability in economics. The paper...