As one of leading founders of bibliometrics, Prof. Junping Qiu has been engaged in teaching and research of "information, measurement, evaluation, management", and attained proficient knowledge in bibliometrics, scientometrics and webometrics and so on. About webometrics,Prof. Junping Qiu and his team have completed or are undertaking three projects of National Natural Science Funding Projects and two Funding Program of the Ministry of Education, and published many books, original research papers, etc. These studies became the powerful foundation to this book.

It is an ideal reference for information management and systems, management science and engineering, information resource management, electronic commerce, information science, library science, archives, publishing, scientology and technology management, scientific evaluation and prediction, etc. and it is also suitable for the majority of information workers, researchers, evaluation workers and managers to read and apply.

    Webometrics is a composition of bibliometrics, informetrics, statistics, computer and network technology to measure the law of network information, mainly cross-relates with the network technology, network management, information resource management and information science and so on. This is a new development and research direction for informetrics.