Cybermetrics, the electronic journal devoted to the quantitative analysis of the scientific and scholarly communication in the Internet has published a special issue titled devoted to: “What does the Web represent? From virtual ethnography to web indicators” edited by Andrea Scharnhorst, Peter van den Besselaar and Paul Wouters: Vol. 10 (2006): Issue 1 http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/vol10iss1.html What does the Web represent? From virtual ethnography to web indicators Andrea Scharnhorst, Peter van den Besselaar, Paul Wouters http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v10i1p0.html Analyzing hyperlinks networks: The meaning of hyperlink based indicators of knowledge production Gaston Heimeriks & Peter Van den Besselaar http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v10i1p1.html Studying the Scholarly web: How disciplinary culture shapes online representations Jenny Fry http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v10i1p2.html Operationalising “Websites”: lexically, semantically or topologically? Viv Cothey, Isidro Aguillo, Natalia Arroyo http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v10i1p3.html Linking shallow, linking deep. How scientific intermediaries use the Web for their network of collaborators Eleftheria Vasileiadou, Peter van den Besselaar http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v10i1p4.html Textured Connectivity: an ethnographic approach to understanding the timescape of hyperlinks Anne Beaulieu, Elena Simakova http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v10i1p5.html Web indicators - a new generation of S&T indicators? Andrea Scharnhorst, Paul Wouters http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v10i1p6.html What do hyperlinks mean: the value of hyperlink-networks as indicators of knowledge production Viv Cothey http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v10i1c1.html Discussion to the article by Jenny Fry Eleftheria Vasileiadou http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v10i1c2.html Discussion of “Operationalising “Websites”: lexically, semantically or topologically?” Gaston Heimeriks http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v10i1c3.html Discussion to the article by Eleftheria Vasileiadou & Peter van den Besselaar Anne Beaulieu http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v10i1c4.html Discussion to the article by Anne Beaulieu & Elena Simakova Jenny Fry http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v10i1c5.html Hybrid spaces - some comments on the article by Andrea Scharnhorst and Paul Wouters Peter van den Besselaar http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v10i1c6.html -- *************************************** Isidro F. Aguillo isidro@cindoc.csic.es Ph:(+34) 91-5635482 ext. 313 Cybermetrics Lab CINDOC-CSIC Joaquin Costa, 22 28002 Madrid. SPAIN http://www.webometrics.info http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics http://internetlab.cindoc.csic.es ****************************************