Web Citation Analysis &Efficiency of Internet Archives in selected Civil Engineering journal: A case study 
Shanthakumari K, Keshava
Journal of Science and Technology Metrics, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2024.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6025/jstm/2024/5/2/45-54
Link: https://www.dline.info/jstm/fulltext/v5n2/jstmv5n2_2.pdf
Abstract:
The study aimed to find the internet archive's efficiency and investigate the persistence and decay of URLs cited in articles from the 'Journal of Composites for Construction' 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.